{"town":"Colonial Beach","timezone":"America/New_York","place":{"category":"history_sites","name":"Westmoreland State Park — Fossil Beach","address":"1650 State Park Rd, Montross, VA 22520","phone":"(804) 493-8821","hours":"Daily dawn to dusk · Park entry fee applies","desc":"While primarily a state park, the fossil beach along the Potomac River cliffs is one of the most accessible fossil-hunting sites in the eastern U.S. Visitors regularly find shark teeth, whale bones, and other Miocene-era marine fossils eroding out of the 100-foot cliffs. The cliffs have yielded everything from individual teeth to the complete skull of a prehistoric sperm whale. Free to keep what you find!","id":"history-sites--westmoreland-state-park-fossil-beach--1q4e32c","provenance":{"kind":"live","source_url":null,"updated_at":"2026-10-08T22:52:28.253Z"},"url":"https://colonialbeachapp.com/places/history-sites--westmoreland-state-park-fossil-beach--1q4e32c"},"freshness":{"status":"live","fetched_at":"2026-10-09T02:11:38.146Z","snapshot_built_at":"2026-10-09T01:14:04.548Z","upstream_truncated":false,"note":"Live public records are combined with the app’s published listings. Fetch time is not a verification date."}}