Rockhounding and fossil sites in Nevada
Rockhounding and fossil sites in Nevada, each compiled from its own sources: what you can collect, how much, and the agency rule. No ratings; every entry carries its status.
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- Berlin-Ichthyosaur State ParkGabbs · State parkA Nye County state park that holds Berlin, a company-owned gold camp of the 1890s, and a barn sheltering giant ichthyosaur bones left in the rock where they were found.
- Garnet Hill Rockhound AreaEly · Public recreation areaA Bureau of Land Management rockhound area in the Egan Range west of Ely, Nevada, where dark almandine garnets weather out of pink rhyolite and wash into the gullies.
- Ice Age Fossils State ParkNorth Las Vegas · State parkA 315-acre state park in North Las Vegas, Nevada, where a trail runs through trenches bulldozed in 1962–63 to test whether people and Ice Age animals shared the valley.
- Oak Springs Trilobite SiteCaliente · Trilobite fossil siteA site with 500-million-year-old fossils and remains of six types of trilobites, including species considered among the oldest on the planet.
Rockhounding in all eleven states; next door in Utah, California, and Oregon.