Petoskey stones are a big business for local souvenir and art stores. Some people walk in just to purchase a stone. “We have carried polished Petoskey stones basically since we opened ...

Petoskey Stone Hunting 101 Where should I look? Petoskey stones are abundant along the Lake Michigan coast from Leelanau County to Petoskey—the stone actually takes its name from the city of ...

I'm a little bit late in uploading this, but while I was up in Michigan I was able to take a trip to find some of the famous ...

So, when you find a Petoskey stone, you’ve found an animal that’s older than a dinosaur! Northern Canada is home to several large diamond deposits, and glaciers snuck some south to Michigan.

Like the Petoskey stone, the Charlevoix stone is a remnant from the ancient period of Earth history when the land that we now call Michigan sat at the bottom of a shallow sea.

It’s more than just a cool rock to us, it’s a symbol of our state’s natural history, beauty and resilience, just like the ...

Petoskey stone hunting is a huge part of the northern Michigan culture. Rock hunters of all ages enjoy combing the beaches for Petoskey stones and the popular Leland Blues and everything in between.

(WPBN/WGTU) -- In September 2015 a Manistee County man managed to pull in a rock hound haul of a lifetime; a 92-pound Petoskey stone.Tim O'Brien of Copemish spotted the huge Petoskey stone buried ...

A 93-pound Petoskey stone found in Lake Michigan in 2015 was later confiscated by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. It is now on display at the DNR's Outdoor Adventure Center, 1801 ...

The stone was named Petoskey, after the Ottowan landowner, because of its pattern of thin brown lines that radiate out from the dark eye center like the name's meaning.

"They're never the same," said Frost, whose work evolved from a Petoskey stone-hunting hobby. "That's what's cool about them." Petoskey stones are fossilized remnants of coral, with a name ...

Even though they’re found in the Great Lakes, Petoskey stones are actually fossilized coral. You can tell a Petoskey stone by its honeycomb pattern (in fact, the word “hexagon” is part of ...