Threadwinder.info - My U.S. Fossil Experiences:

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Virginia:
Westmoreland State Park, a great beach for finding shark's teeth, other marine fossils also found here. Good for children, but a 3/4 mile walk on
      a hilly pathway to the beach, so not good for the very elderly.
A roadcut near Winchester and another near Gore where trilobites and brachiopods are found. Narrow road cuts, be careful of traffic!
Fairview Beach. We found a security man on a scooter who collected a small fee and directed us to the beach. Abundant turretilla fossil snails found here.
      Easy collecting for all ages.

West Virginia
Cranberry Wilderness Park. Paid an honor-system fee at the entrance. Interesting early plant fossils found here on a spacious road cut. Good for children
      who won't wander into the road and who don't get bored too easily. Much gravel, so may be hard for very elderly to negotiate.

Maryland:
Calvert Cliffs, sharks teeth and other marine fossils. A 1 mile gravel walk to the beach.
Bay Front Park, Chesapeake Beach. Roughly 1/3 mile paved walk to beach area. A stiff fee for non-Calvert County residents from Memorial Day to Labor Day.
      A good, but small beach for young and old to hunt for sharks' teeth and other marine fossils, as well as beads of unknown origin.
Purse State Park---It has been a long time since I visited this beach...as I recall it was a long, not-well-marked path to the beach where we found older sharks' teeth.
Matoaka Cottages, St.Leonard, paid a small fee to collect sharks' teeth, scallop shell fossils, ecphora snail fossils, and other marine fossils.
      I want to rent a cottage here someday.

North Carolina:
Topsail Island, beachcombing on all beaches--I have found fossil coral (some in transluscent red & grey agate), sharks' teeth, clam casts, fossilized
      sea urchins (aka "sea biscuits"). Good, easy hunting for all ages.
Aurora phosphate pit, Aurora, in front of Aurora fossil museum; great easy hunting for all ages, bring shovels and trowels.
      One can find all kinds of marine fossils.
Belgrade Quarry, Belgrade My husband and I also got a couple opportunities to hunt in Martin-Marietta's Belgrade Quarry through the NC Fossil Club.
      We dug into a hillock containing ancient beaches with fossil sharks teeth, mollusks, and occasional land vertebrates.

Delaware:
The canal, dredged material put up on the banks of the canal. abundant transluscent brown belemnites, and some fossil mollusks. Easy hunting for young
      and old, good for youngsters who won't wander too far.

Pennsylvania:
a railroad cut near Burnt Cabins in Western PA, fairly good hunting for trilobites and fossil snail shells. Stay off of tracks--
      the trains are very fast!
a road cut in far western PA. Plant fossils in a road cut, so be careful of traffic.

Ohio:
Caesar Creek Lake Spillway, Waynesville---one is expected to get a free permit at the park headquarters. Be sure to check out the exhibit of the trilobites,
      corals, bryozoans, cephlopods found there. All are fairly abundant here. If you sit or lay on the ground (like I do) be careful of the big hairy spiders
      (I only saw 2 on one trip out of a handful of trips, so be wary). One is allowed hand-tools, and a trowel is useful. Good for children and seniors.

Tennesee:
Pickwick State Park where we found trilobites, crynoid pieces, horn corals, snail shells and other marine fossils---site now underwater since dam was erected.

Kentucky:
A large road cut near Frankfort, where we found great brachiopods, some of which have calcite crystals inside. Safe for anyone who won't wander into the road.

Indiana:
Falls of the Ohio, no collecting allowed here, but a wonderful museum and a large fossilized reef to explore & photograph for young and old.

Illinois:
The Mazon Creek area is world famous for its plant and "Tully Monster" fossils. We wandered around and found Fossil Rock Camp ground in
      Wilmington...I don't know if it still exists, but for a small fee we were allowed to collect fossils there. Abundant fern fossils in concretions
      (we haven't found a Tully Monster yet)---be sure to bring a rock hammer. Probably too exhausting for the very elderly. Good for children
      who won't wander too far and can be trusted with a rock hammer.