Big Bone Lick State Park
Big Bone Lick is a unique state park by any standard. Here the prehistoric past is enshrined in a 525-acre park in Boone County, Kentucky that contains the remains of some of Americas early animal inhabitants. Once covered with swamps, the land that makes up Big Bone Lick had a combination of minerals and water that animals found difficult to resist. For centuries great beasts of the Pleistocene era came to the swampy land in what is now know as northern Kentucky to feed on the minerals and salt that permeated the area. Animals that frequented Big Bone Lick included bison, both the ancient and modern variety, primitive horses, giant mammoths and mastodons, the enormous stag-moose, and the ground sloth.
