Experience the thrill of discovery at Our Heritage Guest Ranch. Your guide will help you explore the White River Badlands of northwest Nebraska in search of 30-million-year-old fossils. And the best part is that you get to keep what you find. This is an experience that will satisfy both the amateur paleontologist and those seeking a once-in-a-lifetime adventure.
Our area provides a variety of opportunities to fossil or rock hunt. We are in the Eocene and Oligocene era in the Brule formation. Rock beds 10 miles to our north are reminders we were once at the edge of a glacier or glacial waters.
Contact us for current fees and for more information about what has been found on our ranch and surrounding area.
The Badlands are known for their abundance of fossil mammals. Preserved in the ash of ancient volcanoes are the fossil remains of brontotheres, rhinoceroses, horses, oreodonts, camels, entelodont (pigs), rabbits, rodents and carnivores such as saber-tooth cats and hyaenodon. Non-mammal species include turtles and snails.
You will spend your days out in the field getting your hands dirty as you search these Badlands for the teeth, bones, jaws, skulls and even skeletons of 30-million-year-old creatures.
We supply each individual with some of their digging supplies for their dig.
The items you should bring yourself are sensible shoes, long pants, sunscreen, hat and a water container. Please contact us no later than March 1 to schedule your dig.