Reading Time: 3 minutesA Google search for “fossils near Louisville” led me to Falls of the Ohio State Park and a morning filled with discoveries. During my September 2026 visit, I explored fossil-bearing rocks beside the Ohio River, searched the designated collecting piles, and joined a volunteer-led walk. High water changed the planned
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Reading Time: 4 minutesAn earlier flight turned a Louisville business trip into an opportunity to explore. With a coastal storm threatening travel plans, I moved my flight to Friday, September 25, 2026, arriving a day earlier than originally planned. After I changed the flight, I searched Google for “fossils near Louisville.” That simple
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Reading Time: 5 minutesA conference brought me to Denver in June 2026, but arriving before the business portion of the trip gave me a chance to visit somewhere I’d long wanted to explore: Dinosaur Ridge. The plan sounded simple. Check into the hotel, unpack, take an Uber to Dinosaur Ridge, explore, and return
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Reading Time: 5 minutesDinosaur Ridge had been on my wish list since a conversation with a family at Dinosaur State Park in Connecticut. They told us about their child’s fossil camp experience there, and we found ourselves thinking a fossil camp might appeal to adults, too. When a business conference brought me to
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Reading Time: 3 minutesDinosaur Footprints in Holyoke, Massachusetts, was an unplanned addition to our May 2025 dinosaur tracks weekend. A family we met at Dinosaur State Park in Connecticut described it so enthusiastically that we drove north to see it before turning south toward home. We arrived at a roadside pull-off with no
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Reading Time: 2 minutesPowder Hill Dinosaur Park was our first stop on a dinosaur tracks weekend in May 2025. Following directions we found online, we arrived at a small site beside a residential road in Middlefield, Connecticut. There was little fanfare and room for only about three or four cars, where we parked.
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Reading Time: 3 minutesRain had us wondering whether we would get to make a dinosaur track cast during our visit to Dinosaur State Park in Connecticut. We stayed overnight nearby, and casting was one of the experiences we looked forward to most. After checking in, we headed straight to the casting area, where
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Reading Time: 4 minutes“Want to go fossil hunting?” It was an unusual question to ask the owner of the company I work for while riding to our Nashville hotel, but he said yes! We flew in early to prepare for a conference, only to learn after landing that we couldn’t access the conference
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Reading Time: 4 minutesA Google search for “fossils near Nashville” led me to Fort Negley, where fossil discoveries came with an unexpected bonus: local history and city views. I visited on June 23, 2025, with my company’s owner. We arrived for a conference and discovered we couldn’t access the conference floor until the
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Reading Time: 5 minutesOn June 16, 2019, a colleague and I arrived at the Mount Olympus trailhead in Utah before sunrise. We were in town for a major business event, and our plan was ambitious: hike to the summit, return to the hotel, and then set up our company’s booth. The day did
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