Find rockhounding near you by choosing the closest city below. Each city page lists the places you can visit within 150 miles, sorted by distance, with what you can find, whether it is a fee site or public land, and its current status. To search from your exact location instead, open the rockhounding near me map.
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We publish a city page only when at least eight places near it have been checked against a current source, such as the land manager or operator. The cities with the most choice today are Asheville (31), Greenville (29), Albany (29), Knoxville (28), Atlanta (26). More cities are added as more places are verified; if yours is missing, use your state guide.
Cities by state
- Alabama: Birmingham (12 places)
- Alaska: Anchorage (9 places)
- Arkansas: Little Rock (11 places)
- Connecticut: Hartford (26 places)
- District of Columbia: Washington (22 places)
- Florida: Orlando (8 places)
- Georgia: Atlanta (26 places)
- Indiana: Indianapolis (11 places)
- Iowa: Des Moines (12 places)
- Kentucky: Louisville (14 places), Lexington (14 places)
- Maine: Portland (24 places)
- Maryland: Baltimore (21 places)
- Massachusetts: Boston (25 places)
- Minnesota: Minneapolis (10 places)
- Montana: Missoula (9 places), Helena (10 places)
- New York: New York City (21 places), Albany (29 places)
- North Carolina: Asheville (31 places), Charlotte (20 places), Raleigh (10 places)
- Ohio: Cincinnati (13 places), Columbus (10 places)
- Oregon: Bend (13 places), Portland (12 places), Eugene (22 places)
- Pennsylvania: Philadelphia (19 places)
- Rhode Island: Providence (24 places)
- South Carolina: Greenville (29 places)
- South Dakota: Rapid City (13 places)
- Tennessee: Knoxville (28 places)
- Utah: Salt Lake City (8 places)
- Vermont: Burlington (19 places)
- Virginia: Richmond (15 places), Roanoke (15 places)
- Wisconsin: Milwaukee (9 places)
- Wyoming: Cheyenne (11 places)
How distances and places are chosen
Only places marked Ready or Ready with conditions are listed. Distances are straight-line miles to the site, or to the centre of its county where no exact point is published. Research records and protected places stay on the full map and in the state guides. See how map statuses work.