I'll be spending several days in the Alpine, Big Bend area and was wondering if anyone had any info on sites or digging contacts out that way.

Thanks...

Pretty scarce diggin country. Possible good surfacing if you know a kindly rancher !

After a long road trip here's a couple of small leg stretching divergencies.
Small but neat museum at the Sul Ross college [ big red brick bldgs at the east side of Alpine ]
Had a big cashe of points from a local cave. Also at least one big display of world reknown Fossils from the Glass Mountains [ You passed them on the way into town, mountains that is ! ]
Front "garden" features a well anotated cactus { cactii ? } exibition. Dont step on the HORSE CRIPPLER !

Now when your LEAVING Alpine on 90, 300 feet before going under the train tracks. . .
is the Antelope lodge. Has a really great "rock shop" run by John & Teri Smith.
Teri conducts special surface hunting trips on private ranches, mainly for gem and mineral junkies.
Maybe they got something going that would suit you.

Theres a dry river [ REALLY DRY ] running right through Study Butte [ first group of buidings before Terlingua ] that has some interesting tumbled fossils & rocks !

What a great time of year if your camping down there, no campfire needed,
any flat rock is a frying pan and a small tin foil reflector at the right angle
will boil water !

I went to school out that way for a couple years. SH is right about scarce digging. The only for shure indian site I ever ran across was a large pile of boulders stacked with a small room in the middle. Kinda like a rock lean too. There was obvious smoke on the roof and small handprint as well. Lots of beautiful country out that way if your into that sort of stuff.