Treasure Hunting Vacations |

Have you ever. . .

• Driven miles out of your way to pan for gold?
• Spent hours sifting through sand and gravel looking for fossilized trilobytes?
• Taken a family vacation to Crater of Diamonds State Park?

Then use this section to share your best vacation and travel tips that lead to great opportunities for hunting for treasure--of any kind. Follow the simple guide below to add your travel tips to this page--or post your information and vacation stories in a comment > Click here.

Name of Destination: Crater of Diamonds State Park What you can hunt for: diamonds (natch) Phone/website: (870) 285-3113 / www.craterofdiamondsstatepark.com Nearest city or town: Murfreesboro, Ark. Chances of finding anything?: Low, but it's fun.	Name of Destination: Rocky Candy Mine What you can hunt for: Crystals of Fluorite, Barite, and quartz geodes Phone/website: (250) 442 2833 / www.rockcandymine.com Nearest city or town: Grand Forks, BC Canada Chances of finding anything?: 100% of visitors find pretty fluorite pieces, they are all over, you just hammer them out with the hammers provided. Most people find the small quartz geodes, you have to be lucky to find barite.
Name of Destination: Crystal Mine What you can hunt for: Quartz & pyrite crystals, copper minerals. Phone/website: www.geologyadventures.com Nearest city or town: Seattle, WA Chances of finding anything: You'll find dozens of pretty crystals in a 4 hour trip.	Name of Destination: Mason's Ruby and Sapphire Mine What you can hunt for: Mostly sapphires in the lavender to pink color range, but rubies and other stones may also be found. Phone/website: http://www.masonsrubyandsapphiremine.com/ Nearest city or town: Franklin, N.C. Chances of finding anything?: They (at least they used to) guarantee a sapphire find if you stay all day. It is not salted, so you won't find as much as with the Franklin mines that are salted, but there are beautiful sapphires to be found here and you will likely come away with some nice finds. This is the only Franklin area mine that I know of that allows you to go into the mine itself to dig.
Name of Destination: Richardson's Rock Ranch What you can hunt for: Thunder Eggs, Jasper Phone/website: www.richardsonrockranch.com Nearest city or town: Madras, OR Chances of finding anything?: 100%	Name of Destination: U-Dig Fossils What you can hunt for: Trilobites Phone/website: www.u-digfossils.com Nearest city or town: Delta, Utah Chances of finding anything?: 100% I love this place!
Name of Destination: StoneRose Fossil Center What you can hunt for: Eocene plant, insect, & fish fossils Phone/website: www.stonerosefossils.org Nearest city or town: Republic, WA Chances of finding anything?: Very good, fossils, particularly plants, are abundant. The center allows visitors to keep 3 fossils per day, if you discover more, they are donated to the centers non-profit programs. A low-cost family destination.	Name of Destination: Saddle Mountain What you can hunt for: Petrified Wood Phone/website: N/A Nearest city or town: Mattawa, Wa Chances of finding anything?:100% Good digging and surface hunting in tailings
Name of Destination: Opal Hill Mine What you can hunt for: Fire agate Phone/website: www.wiitaminingandexploration.com Nearest city or town: Blythe, CA Chances of finding anything?: 100%, this site is a winter site ONLY. We are already over 110 degrees For lots more vacation ideas check out this blog. www.myoutdoorchannel.com/cswiita	Name of Destination: The Middle Camp Mining district What you can hunt for: GOLD Phone/website: www.wiitaminingandexploration.com Nearest city or town: Blythe, CA Chances of finding anything?: 100 %
Name of Destination: Jalama Beach What you can hunt for: Rootbeer agate, fossils Phone/website: www.jalamabeachstore.com Nearest city or town: Lompoc Chances of finding anything?:100%	Name of Destination: Cherokee Ruby Mine What you can hunt for: Rubies, sapphires, garnet, rutile, moonstone, and more. Phone/website: http://www.cherokeerubymine.com/ Nearest city or town: Franklin, N.C. Chances of finding anything?: Very good. The staff is just wonderful and will provide plenty of help in your search. Because this mine is completely native and unlike most other Franklin mines, NEVER salted, you won't find as much as with the salted places, but what you find may be of very high quality.