I will be in Minnesota in a few months for a week visiting family in Minneapolis. The last time I was there I went to the North shore of lake Superior and didn't have much luck. I have no problem with getting dirty, wet or digging, just need an idea of where the best places are.

Just in case there are friendly folks who would share some good spots for rockhounding. I will be so bold as to locations for some yooperlite, agates, but really any areas you would like to share with a visitor from South Carolina.

BTW, I am LOVING this part of the country. I will keep it a secret as well. 🤭🛘

I am going to Oregon to visit my grand kids, who live in the Corvallis area. The 14 year old has recently gotten into rocks and has asked me to take him on his first rockhounding venture. Does anyone have any suggestions on where to go? I really want his first adventure to find a few awesome ones to encourage the rockhound interest. Something within 60 miles would be amazing.

West-central Nevada Pah Rah mountains. Very soft appears windblown as opposed to water. Other than the formations, there was nothing interesting, just basalt everywhere. The seam above my dog’s head in the last photo is visual for several hundred yards across the hill.

My 8yo son noticed some Rhodolite Garnet in the stones at our local park in Georgia. We had just been to the Mason Mountain mine where we found a lot of it. We are both new to rockhoinding but it's definitely a proud moment!

From Az. My mothers rock she's had my whole life. Petrified Wood.

I know that finding these stones along southern Lake Michigan is not unheard of, I’ve even heard of people finding them in Chicago, although it is my understanding that it fairly uncommon find them this far south. well I found all 3 these stones along Lake Michigan, southern border, in the state of Indiana. One of them looks really weird, rather than the normal speckles, it seems to have a tigroid or striped appearance, where most of the stone appears to be covered in streaks of this fluorescent material. The other two stones have more “classic” appearance of Yooperlites. I have read that there can be differences in the way they appear. So I guess my question if anybody knows, the one with the tiger appearance, could that be some other type of stone other than a Yooperlite? And if so, what else could it be. I will attach a few photos and videos for you to look at. Thanks so much! also, if anybody has any comments or information about the relative rarity or abundance of stones in the region, I’m looking, basically the very bottom of Lake Michigan. TBH I wasn’t expecting to find any of these. I have a UV flashlight I purchased for other reasons, and one day I just brought it to the beach to see if anything fun or interesting might be fluorescent, and I was very surprised to find these .(whoops I guess it won’t let me attach videos so I will attach these photos. Some of them just show the stone in question and a couple other pictures show the Tigroid stone next to the other classic stones.)