Falls of the Ohio State Park will host its annual Digging the Past event on Saturday, August 24, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Guests can explore fossils, minerals, and archaeology with a variety of free programs and games behind the park’s Interpretive Center. Admission to the museum gallery is $7 for all during this event.
These programs are offered at specific times during the day:
- Explore the outer fossil bed on a guided hike from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. This hike is for guests ages 12 and older.
- Trek the park’s other fossil beds with a guide. Hikes will leave on the hour from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
- Make a free fossil collection from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.
- See what you can knock down at geode bowling from noon to 1 p.m. and 3 to 4 p.m. Prizes will be offered.
- Discover interesting facts about geodes and crystals during a program and giveaway from 1 to 2 p.m.
- Learn about dinosaurs during the Dinosaurs with Dale program from 2 to 3 p.m.
Programs offered all day include:
- Visit refreshed Silurian fossil piles, courtesy of Irving Materials, Inc. (IMI) and Sellersburg Stone Quarry.
- Create an egg carton collection with fossils and minerals for a $1 donation.
- Create crafts like weather rocks, pet rocks, and bead stringing.
- See displays and information from the Falls of the Ohio Archaeological Society.
- Take part in hands-on archaeology activities from the Indiana State Museum.
- Create a make-and-take concrete fossil, courtesy of IMI.
- Browse fossil displays and get your fossil identified, courtesy of the Kentucky Paleontological Society.
- Learn about Orodovician fossil collecting from the Spencer County (Kentucky) Tourism bureau.
- Watch demonstrations of lapidary work (including rock polishing).
- Get your unknown artifacts, rocks and fossils identified.
- Dig “artifacts” in an archaeological mini-mock dig station.
Falls of the Ohio State Park (on.IN.gov/fallsoftheohio) is at 201 W. Riverside Dr. in Clarksville, 47129.