Swatara State Park
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Details: Details are found at the Travel Channel's treasure wiki page for Pennsylvania. It says: "General description: Fossil beds are exposed along the Old State Road and provides a variety of Devonian age (375 million years ago) marine fossils. The fossils can be incredible. Pennsylvania even has a state fossil, the trilobite.
Handy to bring along: 1. Collecting bag 2. Small hand tools
Helpful notes to newcomers: The park is not developed but does offer numerous activities including fishing, hiking/biking trails. hunting and boating."
Directions: Directions are found at the Travel Channel's treasure wiki page for Pennsylvania. It says: "Swatara State Park is in Lebanon and Schuylkill counties, 14 miles north of Lebanon and three miles west of Pine Grove. The park is easily reached from I-81: at Exit 90, Lickdale, take PA 72 north; at Exit 100, take PA 443 west. http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/stateparks/parks/swatara.aspx"
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Google Map: (The GPS marker is only marking the nearest city.)
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