Fossil OR: Wheeler High School fossil beds

Where: US West · North America · approx. 45.0, -120.21 (vicinity only)

Why this spot: Rockhounding locality: John Day Formation Oligocene lake shales behind the school ballfield in the town of Fossil, the only public dig on these beds

What turns up: metasequoia, alder, maple and oak leaves, rare insects and salamanders

Access: Licensed / permit.

Open year-round for a small donation fee to Wheeler High School; hand tools only, dig the designated hillside behind the ballfield

Satellite view, historic-map overlays, tide/flow context and field notes are in the app. Exact research detail is part of Pro.