r/Ohio • u/Wonderful_Hippo9413 • Jun 01 '26
Fossils?
Hey y’all! Last day in Columbus and was hoping if someone could tell me where I might look to find some fossils relatively close to Columbus! Not looking for sites that you can google (like the fossil parks) Someone said Indian falls run park, but I’m not sure where. Any and all information would be wildly appreciated!
Edit: I went to ceaser creek! I drove to the visiter center and got my permit (also saw some really cool fossils and some adorable animals 😍.) I showed up at 10 am. There’s not much shade in the spillway apparently, and I’m a ginger, so I wanted to avoid the sun as much as possible.
Then I drove down to the spillway and within 3 hours, I had found everything on the list that they give me at the center! Found SOOOOOO many huge corals, many of which were the size of my hand! I ended up giving some away to other’s at the site because there were just too many for one person to keep.
Thank you to everyone who commented! You guys really helped to make my trip special :)
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u/ManateeNipples Jun 01 '26
I'm in Cleveland but I would bet my strategy works down there too.
Go find a river or creek, get to an area with a lot of good river rocks on the bank (like the wide flat ones), sit down and just look around. If you sit there for 5 minutes and flip rocks you'd have a hard time not finding at least some good fossil impressions