National Fossil Day at the Falls

Celebrate National Fossil Day at the Falls of the Ohio State Park with a series of special fossil bed hikes, reduced admission for the Interpretive Center, guides on the collecting piles, children’s activities and more!

Three special hikes:

• 10 to 11:30 AM – Fishing for fossils at Fisherman’s Point: Join the park naturalist as we explore the fossil beds at Fisherman’s Point. We’ll look for snails, crinoids, and look at some of the biggest corals on the fossil beds. Bring a deck broom and a bucket and help us expose some cool fossils.
• 1 to 2:30 PM – A really big fossil hike: Join the park naturalist as we seek out the biggest fossils on the fossil beds, including a 50-foot-long branching coral, 15-foot wide honeycomb coral, four-foot horn coral and more.
• 3 PM – Hike to the dam – look at the fossils in a part of the fossil bed that we rarely take visitors.
  Other activities:
• 10 AM to 3:30 PM – Guides help you find fossils and minerals on the collecting piles. Free ID sheets.
• 11 AM – Fossil Wonders of the World – Dale Brown
• 10 AM to Noon – The history of teeth. Stan Dunn, DMD, will have a display of different types of fossil teeth and an activity for children to win a fossil shark tooth.
• 2 PM – Fossil Wonders of the World – Dale Brown
• 10 AM to 4 PM – Arts & craft with a paleontology theme.