Florida's Best Rockhounding Spots
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Explore the map in the DocentPro app6 places in Florida: Hillsborough River, Quincy, Suwannee River Wayside Park, and 3 more. Every place is verified on Google Maps, featured in a Facebook post by rockhoundr.
Hillsborough River
River
4.8
• Find fossil brain coral filled with chalcedony here • Located within the city limits
Quincy
Place
• Discover tan petrified wood with visible grain • No permit needed for collection • Located west of Tallahassee
Suwannee River Wayside Park
Park
4.6
• Home to agatized coral, the state stone • Best finds on gravel bars at low water
Brooksville
Place
• Find fossil sea biscuits with calcite crystals inside • These geodes were once animals
Arcadia Peace River Campground
Campground
4.2
• Find Megalodon teeth and mammoth bone in the gravel bars • Shark teeth are free to keep ✓ Mammoth and mastodon bone require a $5 Florida Fossil Permit ✓ Collecting is banned inside state parks
Chadwick Park at Englewood Beach
Beach
4.7
• Manasota Key at Englewood is known for fossil teeth and coral • Draws lighter crowds than Venice beaches • Fragments of fossil coral, sponge, and marine mammal bone can be found ✓ Confirm current access, permits, and collection limits with managing agency
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