We stopped here after visiting the painted hills. They have all the tools you will need, even safety goggles. Keep digging and you will find a ton of fossils.

Fun experience of digging and finding leaf fossils. The money goes to help for high school activities.

This is a DIY place. You pay $5 more or less, at a drop box and walk in along a path. The hillside pictured is where you dig. I found a leaf fossil. In all fairness, I was not prepared. I didn't bring my coat...More

My wife and I have been to this attraction several times, sometimes alone and sometimes with younger relatives, and we think it is a really special place. However, we have concluded that a family group visit is greatly enhanced when members of the group (particularly...More

This site is of a lake bed. The deposit is mostly leaves. It's easy to find fossils which were alive 30 MILLION years ago, but no dinosaurs. It contains a lot of Oregon's State Fossil, the metasequoia. So go and find your own message left...More

A five dollar donation to the local Fossil High School allows you to excavate for real fossils. Simple tools are provide to aid in your search. Years ago, while carving out their athletic field, the locals realized they'd un-earthed a treasure trove of plant and...More

Our grand daughters were thrilled with all the fossils they found! So easy to access for children and very informative!

You can't take fossils from the nearby John Day Fossil Beds National Park, so this is the place to go if you want to dig. Directly behind the high school in Fossil. $5 per person honor pay into wood box, and tools available for use...More

Directly next to the picture shown here is the Wheeler County RV Park. Reservations must be confirmed several days in advance by money order or check. Its management is part time so one needs to get way ahead in their planning. As for fossil hunting,...More

The fossil beds are great for kids and adults. The local kids actually taught us the correct way to crack open the rocks to find our fossil treasures. The cost is $5 per person and kids under 5 are free. The most important tools are...More