Museum
Doc's Rocks Gem Mine
32 locals recommend,
Tips from locals
Indoor heated gem mining, expert staff, best in the area, also have a dinosaur museum
Bring the kids and pan for gems or impress the family with your axe throwing skill.
This is where we take kids who are getting stir crazy at home on a rainy day. Why? The staff is friendly, accommodating, and super enthusiastic about minerals. (Our brood is consistently enraptured by their description of the stones they find.) Also, Doc’s lets you choose whether to mine with super-authentic local earth or whether to choose buckets that guarantee gems will be found. Finally, we like that Doc’s is adjacent to more indoor activities: the Appalachian Fossil Museum and Tanger Outlets. So if it’s not quite time to go home, you have options of more things to do!
This is where we take kids who are getting stir crazy at home on a rainy day. Why? The staff is friendly, accommodating, and super enthusiastic about minerals. (Our brood is consistently enraptured by their description of the stones they find.) Also, Doc’s lets you choose whether to mine with super…
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Location
100 Shoppes on the Parkway Road
Blowing Rock, NC