Save the date!
Fossil Fest 2024 is the first weekend in November.
Fossil Fest is indoors.
Activities include:
Show Hours
Day | Date | Time |
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Saturday | November 2 | 9:00am to 5:00pm |
Sunday | November 3 | 9:00am to 5:00pm |
Admission:
$3/adult, $2/child (6-12), children under 6 free.
Special rates may apply for school, scout and youth groups. Inquiries can be made here.
Contacts:
Show Chair : showchairaustinpaleo.org
Webmaster : webmasteraustinpaleo.org
Location:
Old Settler's Heritage Association (inside)
Next to the Dell Diamond on US Highway 79, Round Rock, TX 3 miles east of IH-35. See map below.
Grand Door Prizes
Every adult paid admission includes a raffle ticket for these prizes and additional ones may be purchsed. The drawing takes place at the end of the show and you do not need to be present to win.
First. Large Stegodon tooth and jaw with stand. This spectactular tooth (over a foot wide) is from a relative of modern elephants that roamed Indonesia in the Pleistocene.
Second. A carving of a mammoth in fossilized mammoth bone, with stand.
Third. A pygmy mammoth femur (replica)