The Museum’s field station acts as a de facto visitor centre; you can load up on park literature and get oriented to the park. The displays include fossils of species that are not the usual suspects, such as a flying reptile with a 12-metre wing span. A horrifying scene that the kids are sure to love shows four dromaeosaurs staging a pack-like attack on a duckbill.

Assuming you have reservations or good luck getting tickets, you can attend a 30- to 45-minute talk in the field station’s Prep Lab. Inside the wonderfully dishevelled, warehouse-like lab, its shelves heaped with fossils in plaster jackets, technicians labour at long tables, brushing and picking at discovered specimens.