Falls of the Ohio State Park is hosting its annual Digging the Past event on Saturday, Aug. 28 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The event will let visitors explore fossils, minerals, and archaeology with a variety of programs behind the Interpretive Center. Masks will be required to approach tables. Parking is $2 per vehicle, and a discounted Interpretive Center admission of $7 per person will be offered.

Here's a list of activities:

• The park will have more collecting piles this year with free ticketed times every 30 minutes to encourage social distancing.
• Refreshed Silurian and Devonian fossil piles will be available courtesy of Irving Materials, Inc. (IMI) & Bagshaw Trucking, with new minerals as well.
• IMI will also have a “make a fossil” activity.
• An outer fossil bed hike will be at 9:30 a.m. for ages 12 and older.
• Hourly guided hikes of the grounds will take place hourly from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
• Roving naturalists will help you discover the fossil beds for those who don’t want to join a hike.
• Create an “egg carton” geology collection.
• Make a weather rock or pet rock.
• Enjoy tabletop fossil and mineral displays.
• Dig “artifacts” in one of the park’s archaeological mini-mock dig stations.
• Wade Tharp with the Indiana Division of Historic Preservation & Archaeology (DHPA) will have a presentation on “garbagology”.
• Get unknown rocks and fossils identified.

Falls of the Ohio State Park (on.IN.gov/fallsoftheohio) is at 201 W. Riverside Dr. Clarksville, 47129.

To view all DNR news releases, please see dnr.IN.gov.

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Media contact: Alan Goldstein, interpretive naturalist, 812-280-9970 ext. 403 or agoldstein@dnr.IN.gov.