You have access to collection areas not open to the general public, and our program schedule allows you to go on both trips. Fossil Finding Fest Explore millions of years of Washington's paleontological history. As you travel to four or more geological sites, you'll discover that fossils are the remains of living things. See and collect fossils of ammonites and other sea life, insects, plants and fish at private-access facilities. Your family provides its own camping gear and food.
Families drive their own vehicles at their own pace.
We meet at two collecting areas each day, with ample time to collect buckets of rocks or fossils. We drive three hours a day. Fossil Finding Fest ends on Monday so your family can then begin its own camping trip, return home, or drive back to Seattle to attend Rockin' Across the Cascades. Across the Cascades ends in British Columbia on Friday, where your family can start a weekend of camping or return home. All family members traveling with the group must be paying participants and 8 or older.