Friends of Fossil Rim

It was a fantastic experience, one that will live in our memories for many years, and we’ve already recommended it to other family members.

When deciding to spend the day at Fossil Rim, we knew that driving through on our own for our first visit might produce a lot of “Look, Mom, there’s another antelope-thing” - not what I had in mind for our special day! Instead, we sat back in the shaded, open-air tour vehicle and relaxed while our tour guide shared interesting information about the various species and Texas landscape we were seeing. We even went off the regular driving route to the “Staff Only” roads for even more access to some of the animals. Hand-feeding several giraffes was most certainly the highlight of the tour for my daughter – and they’re so much bigger right up close!

Before we left home, I spent some time on the Fossil Rim website, and printed my own page full of small photos of each species. Each photo had the name of the animal and a blank line next to it. My daughter used this sheet to keep tally marks of how many of each animal she saw while on our tour. She was delighted that she saw every animal on her sheet, except for the few that were off exhibit. We’re keeping the page in her scrapbook as a fond memory of the day.

Thank you for making our rare "family time” extra special! We plan to come back to take our own driving tours in the future, now that we know the difference between a Blackbuck and a Blesbok, and are on a first-name basis with the giraffes!

The Franklin Family
Fort Worth