Rockhounding Areas Options

[Grizzly]

Greetings all!

New to the site as I discovered it while doing some research into potential rock hounding areas.

I'm going to be in the Alamosa area for a couple days next week and wondered if anyone had some advice as to where there might be some decent to good places to search. I won't be able to do any digging as I'll probably only have a small rock hammer with me. So I'm pretty well going to be looking for stuff on the surface.

I've already found lots of good info here, hope to get some more!

Thanks everyone!

Mike

[Denise]

Hi Mike and welcome to the CP forums! The San Luis Valley has some great prospecting possibilities with fantastic scenery. There can be some cool stuff found like Jasper, Thundereggs, Chalcedony, Calcite, Agate, Rose Quartz, etc. Depending on where you wanted to prospect (even surface), you will need to go to the proper office for that county to verify that there are no claims or private land there. Weather has been great here lately! Temps will reach the 80's during the day then dip down to the 40's at night. Has been helping keep the rattle snakes down a bit but they are still awake so be careful when you're out there. There are some great topics around the forums about finds and locations, proper research and how to avoid claim jumping so make yourself at home. We have a great group here that is always willing to help, so post up any questions you may have.

Have a great time when you're here in Colorado Grizzly and stay safe out there!


~Denise