Do not waste your time visiting this place, unless you just want to see the horribleness for yourself. First, my family and I are Christians - we do believe God created the world. However, as a popular comedian put it, "there are Christians that are cool, you can hang out with them, and then there are ones who are just creepy." If you'd like to meet the "creepy" ones then be their guests at "Dinosaur Adventure Land".
My husband has enjoyed the teachings of Kent Hovind for years, and was terribly disappointed in this place. Yes, we knew he committed tax crimes, but figured the musuem/"adventure" park might be okay to check out anyway when we were in the area.
Enough about us...Upon arrival it looked okay. Homemade but possibly fun for the kids. Got out and was stared at but not greeted by a volunteer or 2. Then a girl came and with (I'm sorry, the creepiest fake smile I've ever seen) came to give us a "tour". She then proceeded to walk us through this museum and awkwardly do a couple of instructional demonstrations and explanations. (all the while "smiling") She tied them in with Bible verses. She tried to make it relevant to real life. But all I could think was...wow...no wonder people are entirely creeped out by Christians. Something just felt "off". She walked us through a couple of days of creation and then abandoned us several times in the various "museum" rooms by ourselves. She never even made it through the 6 days...We later found her chatting with some other volunteers. One of which asked us if we were there for a tour. I told her the other girl had been giving us a tour. They both then acted annoyed that they had to give us a tour of the grounds. One complained that she had already done (THREE) tours that day...umm...did I mention we never asked for a tour and I would much prefer to NOT be given a tour by these complaining, creepy, volunteers? One of them said they would call some boy to give us a tour of the grounds but he never showed up.
Anyway, I told them it was okay...we would just look around by ourselves. So we rushed our kids around to see a little bit of the crappy junk they have sitting outside and a few smelly farm animals.
My husband, the loyal reader that he is, still wanted to see the bookstore. So we went in there and looked around. An employee or volunteer never came so we left. At that point we pretty much ran the kids to the car hoping no one would stop us on the way.
Oh yeah, one other thing that made it creepy from the get-go, the girl that halfway showed us around also told us, "sorry you probably won't get to meet Kent today, he isn't feeling well...something happened...." (By the way we didn't say anything about meeting him.)
I immediately went into an episode of Monk or Psych in my head trying to figure out what the crime was. Later I saw online that a 7 year old boy had drowned there a couple of months ago...maybe that was it...I have no idea.
BUT to sum it up. The place was creepy. The people were creepy. It felt like a weird cult. People can stay in the cabins in return for volunteer work. The museum was on par with an elementary school science fair. Oh yeah, and there were only a couple of dinosaur statues so I'm not sure what makes it a dinosaur adventure land.
Either stay away, or come to see for yourself.
Love, a devoted follower of Christ - who doesn't believe in all the creepy fake smiles, rip-off attractions or tax evasion. read more