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Sylvania Fossil Park Designated Quarry
Sylvania Fossil Park Designated Quarry is a Ready rockhounding record in Lucas, Ohio. The recorded activity or material is Devonian shale fossils including brachiopods, corals and other marine fossils. The recorded manager or operating context is Outdoor Sylvania Community Parks. Ready means the current evidence supports the modeled activity, but visitors should still recheck current posted rules, closures, hours, fees, claims, collecting limits and site-specific notices before travel.
What is Sylvania Fossil Park Designated Quarry?
Sylvania Fossil Park Designated Quarry is a Ready rockhounding record in Lucas, Ohio. The recorded activity or material is Devonian shale fossils including brachiopods, corals and other marine fossils. The recorded manager or operating context is Outdoor Sylvania Community Parks.
What rocks, minerals, fossils or collecting interests are associated with it?
The record lists Devonian shale fossils including brachiopods, corals and other marine fossils. This description is tied to this atlas entry and should be read together with the access status below.
Can I collect at Sylvania Fossil Park Designated Quarry?
Ready. The current municipal park page says visitors may keep what they find in the designated 5-acre fossil quarry. Tools are prohibited and fossil hunting is restricted to the designated fenced pit, which is seasonal from mid-April through October.
Ready means the current evidence supports the modeled activity, but visitors should still recheck current posted rules, closures, hours, fees, claims, collecting limits and site-specific notices before travel.
Where is this record located?
Navigation uses the recorded public destination or address for Sylvania Fossil Park Designated Quarry. The destination is a travel reference, not a specimen-level promise or a substitute for current access rules.
Recorded destination: 5705 Centennial Road, Sylvania, OH 43560
Who manages the place or provides the evidence context?
The recorded manager or context is Outdoor Sylvania Community Parks.
What evidence supports this status?
The record was last reviewed on 2026-08-20. Evidence and management context: Outdoor Sylvania Community Parks. Current named Ohio collecting program passes authority, footprint, access, closure, rights and source gates; exact specimen coordinates remain suppressed. Program or rule context: SYLVANIA_DESIGNATED_FOSSIL_PIT_KEEP_FINDS.
Program or rule context: SYLVANIA_DESIGNATED_FOSSIL_PIT_KEEP_FINDS
How precise is the map marker?
Navigation uses the recorded public destination or address for Sylvania Fossil Park Designated Quarry. The destination is a travel reference, not a specimen-level promise or a substitute for current access rules.
What should I verify before going?
- Current land ownership and the exact parcel or managed activity footprint.
- Posted closures, seasonal restrictions, opening hours, fees and permit requirements.
- Mining claims, mineral rights, private-property boundaries and road or trail access.
- Whether the material and collecting method you intend to use are actually allowed.
- Current safety conditions, including weather, fire, water, tides, unstable workings, traffic and other site-specific hazards.
When was this information last checked?
The recorded review date is August 20, 2026. Treat that date as the evidence snapshot used for this classification. Conditions can change after review, so field decisions should use the newest posted rules and manager information.
Is a map pin the same as collecting permission?
No. A map pin answers a navigation or geographic-context question. The status and evidence answer the permission question. Exact coordinates, public destination addresses and approximate county or regional context are deliberately kept separate so geographic precision is not confused with legal authority.