Iowa’s state rock is all over the state’s southeast corner, but to find one you need to know someone. “There’s tons of geodes over here, but nobody has opened it up to the public,” said Kirk ...

Keokuk geodes attract rock-hunting hobbyists from all over, but just how easy is it to find one? “As a young kid, we used to go to the Mississippi over there and go fishing,” Mike Shumate recalled.

We took a journey with some relatives out to the Dugway Goede Beds on a recent Saturday afternoon. We were accompanied by my sister-in-law’s family, who had been there before and knew where and what ...