The Mining Adventure

This national, award-winning attraction is one of our most popular activities as well as the best way to start or add to a growing rock collection.

Each miner wears a hardhat equipped with a bright light to see in the dark mine shaft.

Once you enter, begin your search.  Rocks, shells, and gemstones are hidden throughout the mine.  This is treasure hunting in the dark.  Explore all of the nooks and crannies, and be sure to search the mine floor.  When you strike paydirt, put your finds in your bucket, because everything you find in the mine is yours to keep!

This attraction is open to kids of all ages, and is lots of  fun and very exciting.

The cost to enter the Mine is only $7 and the miners get to find and identify a wide variety of treasures.  Adults can accompany their children in the mine for free!  Over 200 different specimens of gems, fossils, shells and rocks have been identified as coming out of the mine.   

Kids of all ages love the mining experience.  After you exit the mine, take your finds to one of the picnic tables and catalog your finds.

We have an identification display that will help you identify all of the finds you take out of the mine. Miners always know what they found and everything you find is yours to keep!

The Rock, Fossil, and Dinosaur Shop is a perfect stop on your next Massachusetts vacation!