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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A digger today found these wonderful pieces. In all, he found 15 florissantia flowers today. That has to be some sort of record!
Photo and fossil prep credit to Isabel.
Great find.
Jealous!
Very , very cool!!
Amazing!’
Doesn’t LOOK like it, but one must wonder if there is organic connection under there
Wowsers!
Awesome!
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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
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”.
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 […]
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