Field Trips
Our rockhound club members love to travel and collect specimens from various locations. These trips are focused on finding and collecting rocks, gems, fossils, and mineral specimens. Joining our field trips is a fun way to travel, learn about geology and spend time with amazing people. It could also satisfy your interest in lapidary, wire wrapping, or faceting.
Club field trips are one of the major perks of joining our local rock club. These trips are essentially short or extended vacations that cater to rockhounding with other rockhounding enthusiasts. The fifteen-dollar membership fee covers insurance through the Midwest Federation and the American Federation of Mineralogical Societies. This allows owners to grant club access to restricted areas such as mines, private claims, and other liable and restricted areas that may allow for exclusive collection opportunities. The property owners are protected from any liability if injuries occur while members collect on their property. Our club has experienced members who have a wealth of information regarding all things related to rockhounding. They can guide you on where to find local favorites such as septarians (lightning stones), copper replacement agates, greenstones, float copper, banded iron hematite, petoskey, Leland blue slag, datolite, and more. Our club takes multiple trips per year outside the state. A few of the out of state minerals and specimens we collect are petrified wood, geodes, opal, amethyst, fossils, fluorite, etc... You can meet these members and enjoy collecting specimens with them on our club field trips.
We have a list of our past and upcoming field trips on our website available to current members. If you have any ideas for future field trips, do not hesitate to contact our current field trip director. You can ask your questions by using the Contact Us page. You can become a member by visiting the Join Us page.
Club field trips are one of the major perks of joining our local rock club. These trips are essentially short or extended vacations that cater to rockhounding with other rockhounding enthusiasts. The fifteen-dollar membership fee covers insurance through the Midwest Federation and the American Federation of Mineralogical Societies. This allows owners to grant club access to restricted areas such as mines, private claims, and other liable and restricted areas that may allow for exclusive collection opportunities. The property owners are protected from any liability if injuries occur while members collect on their property. Our club has experienced members who have a wealth of information regarding all things related to rockhounding. They can guide you on where to find local favorites such as septarians (lightning stones), copper replacement agates, greenstones, float copper, banded iron hematite, petoskey, Leland blue slag, datolite, and more. Our club takes multiple trips per year outside the state. A few of the out of state minerals and specimens we collect are petrified wood, geodes, opal, amethyst, fossils, fluorite, etc... You can meet these members and enjoy collecting specimens with them on our club field trips.
We have a list of our past and upcoming field trips on our website available to current members. If you have any ideas for future field trips, do not hesitate to contact our current field trip director. You can ask your questions by using the Contact Us page. You can become a member by visiting the Join Us page.
