Walk with Dinosaurs!

Mine for Treasure!

Pan for gold!

KEEP WHAT YOU FIND!

CLOSED FOR THE SEASON

Thank you for your patronage!

WE will reopen in april 2025

FREE ART GEOLOGY workshop FOR KIDS!

Saturday August 10th at 2:00pm

Led by local geologist Paelo Paul
aka Paul Tanner

Kids will learn a little about the Jurassic Period of Deerfield, Massachusetts, the earth’s structure, plate tectonics, and volcanoes!

Kids will use recycled materials, 200 million year old rock fragments from local sources and create a realistic habitat that they will take home!

The Rock Fossil and Dinosaur Shop

Thousands of years ago, dinosaurs roamed the very location of our store on Routes 5 & 10 in Deerfield, MA! Today, you’ll find The Rock Fossil and Dinosaur Shop, a family-friendly shop and attraction. We have inventory and activities perfect for people of any age, groups, parties, and gifts! Run by a first grade teacher of twenty-five years, the Shop believes in taking an immersive approach to fun and learning.
Through sluicing, digging, sifting, and exploring the world of rocks, fossils, and dinosaurs, children learn about prehistoric worlds, getting them mentally and physically engaged with a world millions of years old. Like a real prospector, children pan for their own gemstones and explore mine shafts filled with treasures, keeping the treasure they find! They engage in archaeology, unearthing fossils in large sandpits and explore outdoor fossils. The dinosaur exhibit brings dinosaurs to life as children learn about when each dinosaur lived, what it ate, and how it behaved. After discovering and collecting specimens, we provide the children with an identification guide so that they can become budding geologists, paleontologist, and archaeologist. Of course no trip to the shop is complete without checking out the gift shop which is filled with casts from prehistoric times, fossils, and rocks and gemstones from around the world!

DEERFIELD
EDUCATIONAL
FAMILY
FUN!

The Rock Fossil & Dinosaur Shop is conveniently located between Yankee Candle Village and the Magic Wings Butterfly Conservatory and Gardens, making it a great addition to a fun educational family day in Deerfield!

ROARS OF
APPROVAL
FOR THE ROCK!

“This roadside attraction attracts kids with dinosaurs before blindsiding them with geology”   

-Atlas Obscura

“Children get a Prehistoric Experience at The Rock Fossil and Dinosaur Shop”   

-Greenfield Recorder