This park is WONDERFUL for children – fossils, fossils everywhere!
BRING:
Water – no water for sale
Sunscreen – no shade to speak of
Brimmed Hat that will be secure on a windy day
Chap Stick – prairie winds
A bag or pail to carry your fossils
A rock hammer, knife or weeder to pry the fossils you find out of the dirt/clay.
I’m just going to give you a teaser here, as I did a very thorough writeup on (with almost 50 pictures) thefossilforum.com as that is an international forum.
http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/54496-fossil-prairie-park-rockford-iowa/
Main building with solar & wind power and lots of displays.
Main fossil site. Picnic shelter, maintenance building and pit toilets with only shower curtains that blow in the wind for privacy.
Wonderful signage!
The matrix that you are walking on and plucking fossils from.
Lots of water including a river that borders the property.
You have windswept restored prairie to hike, in the brick yards you are walking over millions of years of fossils and you can collect any of them for personal use, bird watching, picnicking, and fishing in the river.
The center is educational and offers various programs and is open to bus tours – good restrooms here and a water fountain. For more information go here:
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