You will want four-wheel drive or a vehicle with high clearance.  Once you leave the cities you will be travelling on dirt and gravel roads.  Most of them are maintained to a certain degree.  We didn’t encounter any road obstacles.

What is a geode?  Basically, geodes are formed from volcanic activity from gas bubbles.   After the bubbles harden, over time crystals are formed on the inside.  The geodes we found in the Dugway Geode Beds were a yellowish and whitish color.  After an hour, we all got pretty good at guessing which rocks were the geodes.

For more information: click here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geode

This is a long drive to the geode beds so be prepared if you are bringing your children or pets.  Also, make sure you have a spare tire and all the necessary tools just in case you have any vehicle trouble.  Fill up before you leave and bring snacks and lots of water!

Before we left, we made sure we had some buckets, shovels, a rock pick hammer, gloves, protective glasses, and food and water.  We departed from the Eagle Mountain area and headed west until we hit Simpson Springs road.  You will at times travel on the same road that the Pony Express used.

You can use the GPS coordinate above to get to the geode beds since you won’t have any cell service for most of the journey.  Since our phones have GPS capabilities, we just plugged in the GPS coordinates in our phones before we left Eagle Mountain and we were able to navigate easily.

We made one pit stop at Simpson Springs for a bathroom break and also to check out some of the old cabins.  Once we were done we kept heading west until we came to the spot where we turned right to head to the geode beds.

The geode beds are large pits and some piles of dirt and rock.  You simply find a spot and just start digging!  We found that most of the geodes are relatively close to the surface or still on the surface so we didn’t dig too much.

Within a few minutes of parking we found handfuls of small geodes scattered on the ground that we instantly cracked open to reveal the sparkly and sometimes colorful contents.  My nieces were enjoying themselves as they would pick up a few rocks and we would gather around and crack them open!  Even my brother’s dog was having fun running around!

Just make sure to bring some protective glasses so when you do crack a rock open your eyes are protected!

We spent a little more than an hour combing the surface and got a good stash to take home with us.

I guess there were some recent rains because of all the small puddles of murky water.  In one of the larger pools of water, hundreds of tadpoles were swimming around.