Jurassic Park (novel park)

Jurassic Park is an amusement park/zoo created by InGen, featuring extinct animals such as dinosaurs as attractions, which they brought over from cloning facilities on nearby Isla Sorna (Novel canon). In an attempt to have a controlled environment, it was built on the island Isla Nublar (Novel canon).

Dinosaurs in Jurassic Park On both islands

 * Apatosaurus
 * Coelurosaurus
 * Dilophosaurus
 * Euoplocephalus tutus
 * Gallimimus bullatus
 * Hypsilophodon foxi
 * Othnielia marshi
 * Microceratops (Microceratus)
 * Parasaurolophus walkeri
 * Procompsognathus triassicus
 * Triceratops horridus
 * Stegosaurus stenops
 * Styracosaurus
 * Tyrannosaurus rex
 * Velociraptor
 * Cearadactylus

Endorsement Team
In an effort to prove the Zoological park he is trying to create is perfectly safe, John Hammond creates several endorsement teams to test out the island resort.

The first endorsement team consisted of:
 * Dr. Alan Grant - chief paleontological consultant
 * Dr. Ellie Sattler - chief botanist consultant
 * Dr. Ian Malcolm - chief mathematician
 * Ed Regis - Public Relations Manager for InGen
 * Donald Gennaro - InGen lawyer sent to inspect Jurassic Park
 * Lex Murphy & Tim Murphy - Hammond's grandchildren invited to show Hammond's faith in the safety of the park

It is during this first evaluation that the catastrophic events on the island took place, nicknamed the Isla Nublar Incident‎

Park Attractions
The tours of different areas of the zoological park are called "rides". The park was set to open with the basic dinosaur tour (the Park Drive ride) which was in-progress when the Isla Nublar Incident started. The other rides were scheduled to come online within six-to-twelve months after the park was to be opened.

Park Drive
This was the main attraction of the park. Officially Named "Park Drive", it is also commonly referred to as the Jurassic Park "Jeep Tour" or "Safari Adventure". It featured the electric Land Cruisers which followed tracks and visited each of the dinosaur enclosures on it's self-guided tour. In keeping with the nonpolluting policies of Jurassic Park, these lightweight electric Land Cruisers were specially built by Toyota in Osaka. CD-ROMs inside the cruisers were controlled by the park motion sensors (if a certain dinosaur was detected within certain distance of the Jeep, the recorded voice in the CD would acknowledge it). The voice on the CD-ROMs giving the tour was that of Richard Kiley. The Land Cruisers also featured an intercom system for Cruiser-To-Cruiser communication as well as communication with the Control Room. The electric gearshifts on the cars seemed to be acting up slightly during the first tour (in the novel). The Tour started by the Land Cruisers passing through the infamous Jurassic Park Main Gate. (Click here for a Full Transcript of the Tour)

Stops on the Tour Included:


 * Hypsilophodon Highlands (featuring Hypsilophodon and Othnielia)
 * Pterosaur Peak (featuring Pterosaurs, but not yet finished for Visitors)
 * Carnivore Country (featuring Dilophosaurus) and t-rex
 * Les Gigantes (A three-star restaurant - not yet finished for visitors)
 * Triceratops Territory (featuring Triceratops)
 * Sauropod Swamp (featuring Apatosaurus and Hadrosaurus)
 * Stegosaur South (featuring Stegosaurus)
 * Velociraptor Valley: The original enclosure for the Velociraptors, was undergoing refurbishment as the the new pack leader kept having her pack attacking the fences for weak spots.

Jungle River Ride
Where the boats follow tracks underwater. The ride was postponed because of the Dilophosaurus spitting on the boat as it went by. The Jurassic Park: River Adventure at Universal Studios is modeled after this ride.



Aviary Lodge Ride
Not much information is available about this ride aside from it taking place in a dome-shaped building, and that it was supposedly similar to a ski lift or the old Skyway ride at Disneyland. Progress on the Pteratops Lodge in the aviary was forcibly delayed, because the pterodactyls in the park were so violent and unpredictable. Placement of the dome within the Park Drive tour area suggested the main entrance gate was probably also used to enter this attraction, although this is only speculation at this time.

Jurassic Park Visitors Center
The hub of the park was the Jurassic Park Visitors Center, which seen from the outside had stone walls with fossil designs engraved into it, flowing water ducts framing both sides of the steps and had a thatched roof. Inside, the main hall featured skeletons of a Sauropod being attacked by a Tyrannosaur. Other parts of the center included a cafe with dinosaur murals on it, a gift shop in the cafe, a scientific lab (presumably for show purposes only), the park's main control center, embryonic storage, and a circulating movie room.

There was also a conference room with one table and several projection devices for use in presentations regarding the park. The guest dorms had bars crudely placed on it's windows and skyline after an incident regarding an escaped Velociraptor. It appears that the Jurassic Park Visitor Center was never fully completed before the Isla Nublar Incident.

(Check here for more details about the Visitor Center)