Where to Find Petrified Wood in Nebraska
Nebraska has 10 mapped collecting spots that report petrified wood, spread across 8 counties. 8 of the spots are on land mapped as publicly accessible.
Every petrified wood spot we track in Nebraska
Best spotLittle Nemaha RiverNemaha County, NebraskaPublic access · Agate, Moss Agate, Chalcedony +2
Best spotPlatte RiverBuffalo County, NebraskaPublic access · Agate, Chalcedony, Jasper +1
Best spotBayardMorrill County, NebraskaPublic access · Agate, Petrified Wood
FairburyJefferson County, NebraskaPublic access · Agate, Chalcedony, Jasper +1
Pine RidgeSheridan County, NebraskaPermission required · Quartz Concretion, Agate, Petrified Wood +1- Steel CityJefferson County, NebraskaPublic access · Agate, Chalcedony, Jasper +1
- WhiteclaySheridan County, NebraskaPermission required · Agate, Chalcedony, Jasper +1
- Crawford (jasper area)Dawes County, NebraskaPublic access · Fairburn Agate, Jasper, Petrified Wood
- AshlandSaunders County, NebraskaPublic access · Agate, Petrified Wood
- FullertonNance County, NebraskaPublic access · Agate, Petrified Wood
Standout petrified wood spots in Nebraska
Hand-picked from the full list above, with the reason each one earns a trip.
Platte River
Buffalo County
The braided Platte at Kearney concentrates agate, chalcedony, jasper, and petrified wood in its gravel bars, all tumbled east from the Rockies and the western Nebraska gravels.
Bayard
Morrill County
Bayard sits in the North Platte valley under Chimney Rock and the Wildcat Hills, where terrace and river gravels yield agate, chalcedony, and petrified wood eroded from the Tertiary beds of the western Panhandle.
Little Nemaha River
Nemaha County
In far southeast Nemaha County the Little Nemaha River and the surrounding glacial drift carry moss agate, chalcedony, jasper, and petrified wood, giving the corn-country side of Nebraska its own honest rockhounding, far from the Panhandle.
Best counties for petrified wood in Nebraska
Ranked by the number of mapped petrified wood spots. County links open the full rockhounding page for that county.
- Jefferson County2 spots
- Sheridan County2 spots
- Buffalo County1 spot
- Dawes County1 spot
- Morrill County1 spot
- Nance County1 spot
- Nemaha County1 spot
- Saunders County1 spot
Before you go
Read the petrified wood identification guide so you know what a keeper looks like in the field: Petrified Wood in the encyclopedia.
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