Stegosaurus
Difficulty: Easy 
Distance: 0.80 miles
Restrooms: No
Stroller Friendly: Yes
Wheelchair Friendly: Yes
Playground: Yes
Dog Friendly: Yes
Location: Thomas P. Grater Community Park
Clues for Your Hike
- Start your journey in front of the Ephrata Performing Arts Center.
- Locate and follow the middle concrete path between the Theatre and the Eicher Arts Center.
- Continue walking onto the paved path.
- As you walk along, you will cross two wooden footbridges before you come to the overpass bridge. The Cocalico Creek will be on your right.
- You will go under an overpass bridge with a cement wall close to you on your left.
- You will cross over a third and a fourth wooden footbridge.
- Just ahead you will find the post on a tree to your right.
- If you pass the sign for The Watershed Restoration Project, you have gone a little too far.
- Turn back and retrace your footsteps back to your vehicle.
Did You Know?
- Stegosaurus, meaning “roofed lizard,” is an herbivorous four-legged armored dinosaur from the late Jurassic period.
- They have distinctive kite-shaped upright plates along their backs and spikes on their tails.
- Stegosaurus had a brain about the size of a walnut, and paleontologists once thought they had a brain in their butt.
