About this campground
Located in the Sheep Rock Unit, the Thomas Condon Visitor Center is a National Park Service research facility containing an outstanding paleontology lab dedicated to the John Day Fossil Beds. Picture windows let you view the working laboratory and collections room with over 60,000 specimens. In the fossil museum gallery, you can walk through nearly 50-million years of the Age of Mammals. Hundreds of fossil specimens are displayed, along with eight large murals depicting plants and animals of the time.
Getting there
The Thomas Condon Visitor Center is located in the Sheep Rock Unit on Highway 19, two miles north of the junction with Highway 26. It is approximately nine miles northwest of the town of Dayville, Oregon and 19 miles south of the town of Kimberly, Oregon.
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