Fun and free. Bring digging tools and buckets for water to rinse fossils/ rocks in.
Fossil Park, Sylvania
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Fossil Park
Centennial Road, Sylvania, OH 43560
419-882-8313
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Ranked #1 of 1 attractions in Sylvania
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Description: This geological park, one of only two of its kind in the world, contains thousands of fossils hidden among the rocks.
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Toledo, Ohio
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Right off the highway.. Totally free.. And you don't use tools, so you can pretty much just come as is and have fun. We found several fossils and pieces of fossils. Would definitely go again.
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Fossil Park is a secluded park designed to allow common people to find fossils among the pile of rock/clay dumped in the area. It's a tidy enough, where they have about 2 or 3 piles to go through. No hard tools allowed, so just use the hands, and use other rocks to clean up the rocks. Most people will get...
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This little park is adjacent to a world famous fossil locality, the Silica Shale, which features exquisitely preserved marine fossils from the Devonian Period. The park is little more than a parking lot and a flat area where they bring in truckloads of very fossiliferous dirt from the nearby quarries. They allow you to hand pick through the piles of...
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