I love finding new activities to do with my family, while saving money. Groupon has built themselves to be a money saver website. I head to the Groupon Coupons tab and search by location for deals. They have over 55,000 free coupons from more than 9,000 retailers. These are all well know stores and businesses you already purchase from! Some of the daily deal retailers include Starbucks, Walgreens, Walmart, and Target.
While on the website, one day, my friend found Penn Dixie, NY.
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My son LOVES collecting rocks and finding fossils. Penn Dixie was a former cement quarry in where visitors can collect and keep Devonian Period fossils including trilobites.
They provide you with a sample fossil sheet. You can bring your own digging equipment. I suggest a bucket, shovel and perhaps gardening rakes.
This place brings together beginning rock hounds and experienced paleontologists alike.
Some of the great fossils you could be lucky enough to find:
Brachiopods – symmetrically shelled filter feeders
Bryozoans – moss animals
Cephalopods – predatory marine molluscs
Corals – colonial and solitary filter feeders
Crinoids – sea lilies
Crustaceans – arthropods such as lobsters and crabs
Gastropods – snails
Ostrocods – tiny crustaceans
Other echinoderms – related to sea stars
Pelecypods – clams Trilobites – extinct marine arthropods
Conodonts – extinct eel-like vertebrates
Fish – primitive
Paleozoic fish
Petrified wood – extinct plants from the
The Groupon for this location gives a two or four person ticket choice.
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Groupon is very awesome! I have been using them for years and for so many things, trips, products etc you name it! You and you family look like you had a great time!
Never thought of Groupon as the source for new trips, but you definitely sold me on it! From the pictures, it seemed like a great outing for those who are adventures and love discovering things.
This is such a fun trip to take! And it certainly looks like you learned a lot! Love the photos!
xo, Taylor || The Millennial Sprinkle (thesprinkle.tayloramead.com)
This is seems like a fun and educational trip.
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I know that I would have loved this and my daughter would have loved this as well. There are so many different rocks and I love to collect them and know where they came from.
I would love to go fossil hunting. This is do exciting .The stories they can tell us. Lived this.
Wow, this sounds like a very exciting and adventurous outing for the whole family. Love stuff like this. It sounds educational while also fun.
THis is so exciting and a great place to take kids. SOmething different and educational too.
Groupon is the best! Especially when traveling! You can find some killer deals on attractions.