Participants who drive to the meeting places may leave their cars there for the duration of the trip. . We have had many requests for doing children's digs, so we have lowered the minimum age for several trips this year. Parents are responsible for keeping an eye on their children, especially when we get into rugged terrain. Children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult. Western Paleo Safaris offers a variety of trips.
Some trips focus on a single site.
Other trips are more of a sampler, where we visit several fossil sites. These trips are aimed at those who want to collect a variety of fossils, and generally incorporate more driving time. Most of the trips also include a stop at a local museum which displays some of the fossils we may be looking for. A word about dinosaurs Over the past ten years or so, dinosaur fossils have become increasingly commercially valuable. On some of the trips where we have access to dinosaur fossils, we are visiting the site with the aid of a commercial collector.