• Fossil Hunting
  • Rockford Brick & Tile Company
  • Prairie
  • Fossil & Prairie Center
Since the Fossil & Prairie Center's opening in 2001, visitors from 20 countries and 47 U.S. states have been welcomed to Floyd County. Within the Center, the various features of the park are individually highlighted and their connections to each other reveled.
The Fossil & Prairie Center is open weekends inMay, September, & October from 1-4 p.m. Open Memorial Day through Labor Day everyday from1-4 p.m.Group tours are available by contacting the Fossil & Prairie Center at 641-756-3490 or email at fpcenter@omnitelcom.com There is no admission fee although donations are welcome.

The prairie and the Rockford Brick & Tile Company site connect the park with Iowa's agricultural history: the settlement of the prairie and agricultural drainage. For more information on Iowa's agricultural history visit the Silos and Smokestack National Heritage Area website.

The Fossil & Prairie Park became Iowa's 93rd State Preserve in 2006 based on its unique biological, geological, and historical features.

At the time of Iowa's settlement, prairie was the dominating landscape. The Fossil & Prairie Park Preserve contains over 60 acresof native prairie. Hiking trails encourage visitors to explore the colorful displays, throughout the seasons, once viewed by thier ancestors.
Proof of the exitance of the Rockford Brick & Tile Company at the Park's location are the remains of a quarry where blue shale was collected to produce agricultural drainage tiles and four bee hive kilns where this product was made.
This 400 acre park preserve contains many unique features.
Fossil & Prairie Park Preserve and Center
Being on of only three known public fossil collecting sites in the nation (CNN 2003), visitors can easily collect Devonian fossils. Tools are not needed to unearth these rare treasure lying on the ground in an abandoned quarry. Collecting is allowed for personal collections, no comercial collectingis allowed.