Open Ground
The Caesar Creek Spillway
Free-permit fossil bed · Waynesville, Ohio
Open to digThe prize. Ordovician trilobites and brachiopods
Where. Waynesville, Ohio
Status. Open to dig
Where. Waynesville, Ohio
Status. Open to dig
The account
Grab a free permit at the visitor center and the Caesar Creek spillway opens up four hundred and fifty million years of Ordovician seafloor, where palm sized slabs of brachiopods, trilobites, and coral are yours to keep.
Leads, where the trail points now
- What you can keep: Ordovician trilobites and brachiopods. Confirm the site's current rules and any day fee before you go.
- Where: Waynesville, Ohio. Search only the marked legal area, and bring the right pan, screen, or detector and a container for finds.
- Best practice: record anything notable, leave the ground as you found it, and check the latest access notices before you travel.
Open ground. You can legally search here and keep what you find, within the rules the site posts. Bring any day fee or licence it asks for.
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