FossilFest2024 happens at Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa, Florida on March 16-17, 2024. Credit: Photo via Tampa Bay Fossil Club
Fossils aren’t hard to come by in Florida (just head over to Caspersen Beach in Sarasota and see what we mean). An event happening in Tampa this weekend won’t require your own sifter though.

FossilFest organizers Tampa Bay Fossil Club have put the Sunshine State’s prehistoric past at the center of their show were ticket holders can not only view fossils found here (beyond the typical shark teeth, dugong, and other fossil fragments), but take part in educational opportunities, too.

Vendors and trading stations will be available, along with various other literal gems, minerals, shells and old antique bottles. Kids under 12 get in free.

Tickets to FossilFest 2024 happening Saturday-Sunday, March 16-17 at Florida State Fairgrounds are $8 for anyone 12 and over. Subscribe to Creative Loafing newsletters.

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This article appears in Mar 7-13, 2024.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...