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October 2023 by Danielle Weeks
Went a few weekends ago, we had a blast. Weather was perfect. Everyone is super friendly and helpful. We found some awesome fossils!! Would highly recommend to everyone!!!
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September 2023 by Connor A
Great place. Found some good fossils
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September 2023 by Scott Gillette
Awesome time, went with my dad who also had a fun time. Split shale with fancy tools take everything you find. Way worth $20 an hour. Owners were super helpful. Got a big sequoia branch, a seed or nut, cool wood piece, many leaves etc. After getting home and checking things over with my 10x loupe I found a couple of flying insects on the plates as well! A very cool experience and I'm ready to go back next season.
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August 2023 by Tubesoxrox ..
I wouldn't listen to the people who say there is nothing in the shale or that the owners are rude. We had a wonderful experience today and the owners were so nice and helpful!
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July 2023 by Aliegha C.
We stopped by here after staying in Manitou Springs. The place is family owned and all the workers were super friendly. You use a variety of tools to open and split rocks that you can even choose from a pile. My family found a variety of leaves, feathers, and even a flower. We saw others find a perfect fish imprint. You can keep all of the fossils you find. It was $20 per person per hour in July of 2023
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July 2023 by Jennifer Lobban
This sounds cool… until you are handed a box of very thin and brittle layers of shale like rock.. and for every spec is a story of what insect or leaf that might be a fossil of… for the price its not something we would do twice
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July 2023 by victoria schmidt
I love coming during the summer before summer camps start for kiddos, never a lot of people here at the same time which is lovely for trying to make mini date day that's more adventurous.
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July 2023 by Kira Pearson
This place was great and the ladies here were fantastic. We came from Boston to check it out and loved every minute!
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June 2023 by Jennifer Madril
We visited the quarry memorial day weekend. It wasn't too hot, and we called before to make sure we didn't need a reservation. We had a lot of fun, we found fossils in the shale within the hour we stayed. My son, who is 6 years old, absolutely loved this experience. Would definitely recommend.
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November 2022 by Veronica Sarrazin
I don't live nearby, but was researching places to visit on a possible future trip. I saw the fossil kits they have available to be purchased and shipped. It came quickly, undamaged, and is perfect! Thank you!
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November 2022 by Rick Hartlieb
Nice and well organized stop on a fossil/ dinosaur themed road trip. 5 year old son and I found intact leaves, seeds, and a small insect during 1 hour. Cash only.
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November 2022 by A. Humphries
This place is great!! We took our teenage boys here and had the best time!! Such a unique experience. It was so exciting to crack open something and find a fossil!! This was one of our favorite things out of the many things we did in Colorado. The people running the place were so sweet and helpful. I wish we would have had time to go back!
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November 2022 by Erin M Blessman
Pretty neat place. Beware! The website specifically says that it is $15 per collector, cash only. Nowhere does it say you have to have a paying adult to go up to the area with kids. When you get there, they tell you you cannot be up there supervising your children if you don't pay the $15... So you drive over an hour, bring enough cash for your kids and they tell you you have to wait in the parking lot. So, bring money for the adults.... So ridiculous! I debated raring it at three stars because of this but it really was a neat place. They are very strict on your hour as well. I feel like it took us a little while to get in the groove and figure out how to find fossils so it also might be worthwhile to bring money to do a second hour.
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November 2022 by Isaac Sherwood
This place was surprisingly a lot of fun. The price is reasonable, and we found a lot of cool fossils (lots of sticks, leaves, and a couple of bugs). The people ru. I got the place were also super friendly and helpful which is always a plus. Definitely a fun place to spend an hour or so.
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September 2022 by Barb G.
Very disappointed!!!! Drove 2+ hours one way to find out they were hosting a group and couldn't accommodate us for 1 1/2 hours which didn't fit our schedule. Spoke to the office yesterday, confirmed arrival time, directions, etc and not a mention of the closure. I wouldn't make this a destination...if you're in the area it might work. Poor customer service.
