Shows who owns the land under your feet and where active mining claims are, on a map that follows you as you walk.
Geodeo: Rockhounding Spots MapShows who owns the land under your feet and where active mining claims are, on a map that follows you as you walk.
Where to go rockhounding, state by state
Hobby rock collecting is generally allowed on Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service land, banned in national parks and wildlife refuges, needs permission on private and tribal land, and varies on state land, where most state parks ban it. Each state page shows how much of the state is open ground, which mineral sites the U.S. Geological Survey has recorded on it, and how much is under active mining claims.
- Alabama: 4.6% BLM and Forest Service land, 168 recorded mineral sites on it
- Alaska: 24% BLM and Forest Service land, 2,346 recorded mineral sites on it
- Arizona: 34% BLM and Forest Service land, 4,459 recorded mineral sites on it
- Arkansas: 11% BLM and Forest Service land, 70 recorded mineral sites on it
- California: 38% BLM and Forest Service land, 9,960 recorded mineral sites on it
- Colorado: 35% BLM and Forest Service land, 4,755 recorded mineral sites on it
- Connecticut: 0.0% BLM and Forest Service land
- Delaware: 0.0% BLM and Forest Service land
- District of Columbia: 0.0% BLM and Forest Service land
- Florida: 3.3% BLM and Forest Service land, 5 recorded mineral sites on it
- Georgia: 4.8% BLM and Forest Service land, 167 recorded mineral sites on it
- Hawaii: 0.0% BLM and Forest Service land
- Idaho: 60% BLM and Forest Service land, 4,256 recorded mineral sites on it
- Illinois: 2.0% BLM and Forest Service land, 213 recorded mineral sites on it
- Indiana: 2.8% BLM and Forest Service land, 22 recorded mineral sites on it
- Iowa: 0.0% BLM and Forest Service land, 1 recorded mineral sites on it
- Kansas: 0.7% BLM and Forest Service land
- Kentucky: 6.3% BLM and Forest Service land, 8 recorded mineral sites on it
- Louisiana: 3.2% BLM and Forest Service land, 4 recorded mineral sites on it
- Maine: 0.4% BLM and Forest Service land, 34 recorded mineral sites on it
- Maryland: 0.0% BLM and Forest Service land
- Massachusetts: 0.0% BLM and Forest Service land
- Michigan: 10% BLM and Forest Service land, 44 recorded mineral sites on it
- Minnesota: 7.4% BLM and Forest Service land, 26 recorded mineral sites on it
- Mississippi: 10% BLM and Forest Service land, 61 recorded mineral sites on it
- Missouri: 6.9% BLM and Forest Service land, 373 recorded mineral sites on it
- Montana: 27% BLM and Forest Service land, 3,414 recorded mineral sites on it
- Nebraska: 0.7% BLM and Forest Service land
- Nevada: 75% BLM and Forest Service land, 7,489 recorded mineral sites on it
- New Hampshire: 14% BLM and Forest Service land, 15 recorded mineral sites on it
- New Jersey: 0.0% BLM and Forest Service land
- New Mexico: 29% BLM and Forest Service land, 1,755 recorded mineral sites on it
- New York: 0.1% BLM and Forest Service land
- North Carolina: 16% BLM and Forest Service land, 940 recorded mineral sites on it
- North Dakota: 2.6% BLM and Forest Service land, 2 recorded mineral sites on it
- Ohio: 3.1% BLM and Forest Service land, 3 recorded mineral sites on it
- Oklahoma: 2.2% BLM and Forest Service land, 3 recorded mineral sites on it
- Oregon: 50% BLM and Forest Service land, 3,552 recorded mineral sites on it
- Pennsylvania: 2.5% BLM and Forest Service land
- Rhode Island: 0.0% BLM and Forest Service land
- South Carolina: 6.9% BLM and Forest Service land, 44 recorded mineral sites on it
- South Dakota: 4.7% BLM and Forest Service land, 787 recorded mineral sites on it
- Tennessee: 4.9% BLM and Forest Service land, 389 recorded mineral sites on it
- Texas: 1.3% BLM and Forest Service land, 1 recorded mineral sites on it
- Utah: 58% BLM and Forest Service land, 2,984 recorded mineral sites on it
- Vermont: 14% BLM and Forest Service land, 26 recorded mineral sites on it
- Virginia: 13% BLM and Forest Service land, 439 recorded mineral sites on it
- Washington: 21% BLM and Forest Service land, 2,237 recorded mineral sites on it
- West Virginia: 12% BLM and Forest Service land, 24 recorded mineral sites on it
- Wisconsin: 7.4% BLM and Forest Service land, 6 recorded mineral sites on it
- Wyoming: 47% BLM and Forest Service land, 758 recorded mineral sites on it
From the BLM Surface Management Agency map, USGS PAD-US, the USGS Mineral Resources Data System and BLM's mining claim records.