Travel Time To Regular Fossiling Location

[mommabetts]

Once I walk out my door, I can fossil hunt in any direction in about 30 minutes time.

[Northern Sharks]

I can get to the 2 quarries I hunt in about 45 min. The quarries themselves are maybe 5 minutes apart.

[BonemanX3]

It vary's a ton for me. Sometimes I'll find a good road cut or quarry two minutes away. Sometime's it's a three hour drive and sometimes it's a 5-hour plane flight to either..Utah,Wyoming,Nevada,or Colorado. and then hours to drive to the fossil hunting place once I get there

[old dead things]

Depends on what I am collecting.

Pierre Shale: (40 miles) 45 minutes

Frontier Formation: (70 miles, 30 of them dirt) Two hours

Fossil Fish: (349 miles) Six hours

Montana: (300 miles) Five hours

[Guest Nicholas]

My one regular hunting spot is very near by about a 10 min drive from my house and still in my town.

[beachbum]

Most of my hunting spots are in the 4 to 5 hour range each way for the day hunts.When I really get ambitious,7 to 8 hours one way.

[Phoenixflood]

Depends on where I'm going. Normally where I go take a little less than 2 hours in MD. 6+ hours to get down to NC for the Lee Creek/GMR trip.

I'd love to go to Texas though. I have a future sister-in-law there. She said I could come visit if she still has a job at the Houston Chronicle after the next few months otherwise she's coming back here. Is Houston close to any sites that you guys hunt at?

[PaleoRon]

The closest decent collecting sites, where I can be assured of finding at least one fossil, are about two hours away. Most of my really nice spots are four hours or more away.

[grampa dino]

It all depends on what is on my shopping list that day.

Dino stuff, can be an hour away, or up to 5 hours.

Plant ,depends what age (formation) up to 3 hours

Sea sh-t, also depends what age, from two to 5 hours

[Martijn]

Well folks, I live in the south of Norway. Lots of nice minerals and stones here, but NO fossils. When I do want to collect I prepare a long trip from at least one week. It takes me a half an hour drive to the coast were I can take the ferry (boat) to Denmark. From there its a bout a two hour drive to my nearest favourite spot, where I can collect some nice echinoids. But my favourite spots are in Holland and Belgium, were the sharksteeth are, hahaha. so that takes me at least 8 hours extra. So when planning such a trip a make a few more stops, my coming trip will take me to some Cretaceous quarries near Hannover, Miocene in Holland, Miocene Belgium and Cretaceous Belgium and on the way back Paleocene, Eocene and Oligocene Denmark. 10 days of fossil fun!

Martijn

[MikeD]

Depends on where I'm going. Normally where I go take a little less than 2 hours in MD. 6+ hours to get down to NC for the Lee Creek/GMR trip.

I'd love to go to Texas though. I have a future sister-in-law there. She said I could come visit if she still has a job at the Houston Chronicle after the next few months otherwise she's coming back here. Is Houston close to any sites that you guys hunt at?

There are fossils here in Houston, but you really can't find them unless somebody is digging a really deep hole. Depending on what part of town you are in, about an hour drive will get you to the beach, where you may or may not find something. An hour or so in another direction will get you to Eocene shells and petrified wood, where you are guaranteed to find something. 2 1/2 to 3 hours will get you into the Cretaceous.

[The Fossil Fanatic]

As I live in North Dallas area, I can get to Kb and Kap in <5 min, lower K, <1hr, the Sulpher Rivers in 1-1.5 hours, and finally Pennsylvannian deposits in 2 hrs. Oh yes, I can go to Dan's SA sites in 4 hours... heh heh...

(With Dan of course)

-Brent

[Orca1140]

My favorites Hunting ground is in South Carolina, but I live in Alabama. I usually make 4-5 trips a year. The trip takes 8-9 hours driving time. We stay for 3 days and make 2-4 dives per day.

[Seldom]

I am about 5 min from my regular beach maybe 20 min from the pass I can be in High Island in 45 min that includes 20 min ferry ride

[sparkchaser]

It's at least a 3 hour drive for me and usually ends up to be an overnight affair.

[earthdog]

I live 100 miles from my collecting location on the Peace River. The first 30 miles are boring interstate travel, but the last 70 are through beautiful old Florida. While travelling through the old Florida section, I have seen large gators, deer, wild boars, bald eagles, otters, and a bunch of other amazing and interesting things. I usually put on a Lynyrd Skynyrd cd or the soundtrack to "Oh Brother, Where art thou" and it feels like I'm driving in a music video. I am dreaming of being able to buy a fossil hunting lodge up on the river, but I don't have the $$ to make that dream a reality yet.

Please note that is not a fossil/hunting lodge, rather it is a lodge for fossil hunting. I'm not going to try to tell anyone else how to live their life, but hunting for sport or food isn't how I roll.

[Auspex]

...I am dreaming of being able to buy a fossil hunting lodge up on the river, but I don't have the $$ to make that dream a reality yet...

I like the "yet" part!

Add a couple basic house-keeping cabins to rent, and you won't be short of customers

[earthdog]

I like the "yet" part!

Add a couple basic house-keeping cabins to rent, and you won't be short of customers

Well if I can ever pull it off, you'll stay for free Auspex, as you've been such a help on this forum in my short time here. Thanks.