Other activities your group may want to consider:

• Franklin Gem & Mineral Museum
• The Factory
• Waterfalls
• Trout Fishing
• Scottish Museum
• Great Smoky Mtn Railway
• Cherokee Indian Reservation and Museum

White Water Rafting

• Deep Creek Tubing
• Raft With Kids
• Carolina Outfitters

Check the links page for more activities.

Scouts should also plan a visit to the historic Franklin Gem & Mineral Museum located in historic downtown Franklin. The museum is located in the old city jail. 

Field Trips and Group Rates

At Rose Creek Mine we offer group packages for schools, rock clubs, scouting groups, senior citizen groups, church groups, youth groups, day care centers and any other educational or social groups you can imagine. There is plenty of parking and a covered picnic pavilion free for your use.

Scout Troops: Work toward your badge, belt and achievement awards. 

Educational Program includes:

• Brief history of mining in the
  Cowee valley
  Types of rocks and how they were formed
• How gems are formed
• Fossils
• Hardness Scale
• Uses of rocks in every
  day life
• Collections

VISIT OUR ONLINE STORE - OPEN YEAR ROUND

Can't come see us? Have a treasure hunt at home! Visit our Mail Order Page and see all the exciting things you can purchase. It's fun for the whole family.

Enter our store by clicking on the Amethyst!