About Lark Quarry

Park features

Stampede! Panicked dinosaurs left more than 4000 muddy footprints on the shores of a lake 95 million years ago when a larger dinosaur tromped among them in search of a meal.

Travel across ancient mesas of jump-up country to the world’s only known dinosaur stampede site. The trackways are protected inside a solar-powered shelter built using ecologically sustainable methods.

Formed over millions of years, the ancient rocks bearing the stampede have been exposed through erosion causing a striking landscape of jump-up country with flat-topped hills (mesas), gullies, and steep, broken escarpments.

Learn more about the nature, culture and history of Central West Queensland parks.

Looking after the park

Everything in Lark Quarry Conservation Park is protected, including plants, animals and heritage sites and artefacts. Please appreciate, respect and help care for Lark Quarry’s outstanding natural and cultural values by leaving things as you find them, and encouraging others to do the same.

Please read looking after parks in Central West Queensland.

Park management

Lark Quarry is jointly managed by Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service and Winton Shire Council. The Queensland Museum provides scientific advice on ways to protect the trackways.

The park’s infrastructure was built using ecologically sustainable design principles and features solar energy, rainwater collection and minimal impact construction methods.

Tourism information links

Waltzing Matilda Centre
(contact for Dinosaur Trackways)
www.matildacentre.com.au
www.dinosaurtrackways.com.au
50 Elderslie Street, Winton
ph (07) 4657 1466
email waltzing@matildacentre.com.au

Winton Shire Council
www.winton.qld.gov.au
www.experiencewinton.com.au
75 Vindex Street, Winton
ph (07) 4657 2666
email info@winton.qld.gov.au

Longreach Regional Council
www.longreach.qld.gov.au
www.experiencelongreach.com.au
96a Eagle Street, Longreach
ph (07) 4658 4111
fax (07) 4658 4116
email assist@longreach.qld.gov.au
email experience@longreach.qld.gov.au

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For tourism information for all regions in Queensland see Queensland Holidays.