Note: Please respect private property. Parking lots are also private property. I recommend obtaining permission before removing anything, including rocks, from a parking lot.
Just the other day, I had to run to Target with my daughter to pick something up for a school project. As we were walking across the parking lot something caught my eye.
It was a small fossil. About the size of a dime. It was mixed in with other gravel in those median type things that have trees and shrubbery growing in them.
Not the most epic find ever made, but still…the fact that I found it in a Target parking lot was pretty cool. At least we thought so!
I’m always scanning the gravel when walking in parking lots. Sure, I might look goofy walking slow with my head down, but that’s alright.
Folks walk by stones all the time and have no idea what they’re literally stepping over; crystals, agates and even arrowheads!
All of the below images are from r/rockhounds.
Epic Parking Lot Finds!
1. Agate found in a Captain D’s parking lot
2. Horn coral fossils from a limestone parking lot
3. Found in a Target parking lot
4. Quartz crystals found in the gravel of this users parking lot.
5. Silicified trilobite tail found in the gravel of a hamburger restaurant.
6. This gravel parking lot was loaded with crushed agatized coral
7. Another agate find in a gravel parking lot
8. Prehnite that was found in a gravel parking lot
9. A beautiful parking lot find near Mt. Adams
10. Two agates found in a gravel parking lot
11. Pyrite found in a school parking lot
12. Arrowhead found in landscaping rock in a parking lot in Scottsdale, AZ
13. An emerald found by a 6 year old in the parking lot of a mine
