Our Hours
We are open May 28 thru Sept. 3 Daily (CLOSED Labor Day) 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. See hours, location, and contact info.
Fall hours begin Labor Day. Starting Wed., Sept. 6, we will be open Wed. through Sun. from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. As always, the latest time to go up to the site to look for fossils is 3 p.m., and you must return to the Center for fossil identifications no later than 4 p.m.
The site closes for the Winter season on Oct. 30. The Center remains open all Winter for browsing and shopping!
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We will be closed Wednesday May 21 for a county wide power outage. We're sorry for any inconvenience.
How ignorant, should be done at night
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The youtube link. Melanie is currently in Rawanda working with students and the Gorillas.
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Our Famous Fossil
Lisa Barksdale, former Stonerose Curator, and Wes Wehr, former paleobotanist for the Burke Museum, found this amazing lobed Florissantia quilchenensis. This specimen was pictured in the National Geographic magazine in July 2002 in an article titled “The Big Bloom,” because of … Read more
What Our Visitors Are Saying
Had a Great Time!
“Addictive, fascinating, fun! We enjoyed our half day fossil hunting, and found several beautiful fossils. We were allowed to keep one of the two sides of a fossil leaf that showed chew marks made by a bug. The other side was sent for analysis to the scientists at the Burke Museum to identify the bug that […]
Our kids loved it!
Our “tween” granddaughter can be a hard sell and we knew we had hit gold when she said “I could stay here forever”.
Stonerose Fun
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