Dig your own fossils in Wyoming!
Guided Fossil Digging Tours!
Be a paleontologist for a day and experience a real working fossil quarry! Ulrich’s Fossil Gallery offers professionally guided fossil digging tours in the Green River Formation. Our staff will transport you to our quarry and assist you in finding quality specimens of all common species of fish. Due to demand, advanced reservations are recommended for weekday tours and required for weekend tours.
You will be provided with all necessary tools for excavation and shown how fossil professionals find and preserve quality specimens. Upon your return to the gallery, our staff will cut (square) your materials. Packing material is provided for you to take your fossils home with you and shipping arrangements are available.
Tours typically begin at 9:00am and last as long as needed until you’ve “caught your limit” and have a full pallet* of fossils to take home. We recommend you wear layered clothing (temperatures can vary dramatically from mid to late morning) and bring sunglasses, water, snacks, and any personal amenities you would like to have with you. Our tour season begins in mid-May and runs through October, weather permitting.
As well as a guided dig in the split-quarry, your tour will include a demonstration of excavation in the famous Eighteen-inch Layer!
Pricing: $125 per adult
Children under 16 can dig for free with a paying adult, or can share a pallet* for an additional adult fee ($125)
*A pallet is a 2′ x 2′ plank of wood that you will collect your fossils on.
Contact us for special rates for school groups!
Come visit our gallery!
We are one of the first and largest purveyors of professionally prepared and unprepared Eocene fossil fish from the Green River formation (Syncline Lake). We offer a vast selection of fine fossil-art, hand-prepared by our expert staff and excavated from our own fossil quarry.
In addition to prepared fossils, we offer a great assortment of unprepared specimens straight from the 18-inch layer, as well as fossil preparation kits and a variety of geological gifts and souvenirs.
Our gallery, located just three minutes from the Fossil Butte National Monument visitor’s center, is the perfect stop on your way to Kemmerer, WY (the fossil capital of the world) or Bear Lake Recreational Area.
Featured Products
Grade A Fossil Prep Kit
$45
Priscacara Fossil Prep Kit
$75
Five Split Fossil Special
$125
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