Roadside Americana · California
Cabazon Dinosaurs
Giant roadside dinosaurs off I-10
TypeGiant Roadside Colossus
StateCalifornia
WhenFall–spring (desert summer is fierce)
How to visitGrounds free; museum inside ticketed
Dinny the Apatosaurus and Mr. Rex, the enormous concrete dinosaurs that loom over I-10 near Palm Springs — built by a sculptor over decades and immortalized in Pee-wee’s Big Adventure. You can climb up inside the brontosaurus.
The photo
The dinosaurs against the San Gorgonio windmills.
Pair it with
- Palm Springs
- Joshua Tree NP
- San Gorgonio Pass windmills
- I-10
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