

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Free Guided Tour
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 08 Jun, 2025 at 06:00 pm – Sun, 08 Jun, 2025 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Embark with us on a journey into the fascinating world of rocks and minerals! 

This well-curated tour is designed to provide a fun and educational introduction to the world of rocks and minerals and the Rice Museum. Walking through our galleries you'll admire the stunning beauty of nature's artwork while learning about the geological processes that create them.  In addition, you'll hear about the couple that spent a lifetime collecting these wonders, and then turned their collection and home into a museum.  Afterwards enjoy the displays at your own pace, have a picnic outside,  or walk one of our nature trails.

It's the perfect tour for science enthusiasts, rockhounds, or anyone who has driven past us on highway 26 and wondered what that mid-century modern home was in the middle of the farmland!   

Advanced registration is required.  This is a mixed group (families) tour with up to 20 attendees.  Recommended for first grade and older. Please make sure to register all people in your party, including children.   If you are unable to make it, please cancel your reservation so that others may book.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/north-plains/free-guided-tour/200028284117429
- **Event Categories**: trips-adventures, parties, entertainment, kids
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 4

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://www.simpletix.com/e/free-guided-tour-tickets-215988?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=north+plains-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: North Plains
- **state**: OR
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 26385 NW Groveland Dr, Hillsboro, OR, United States, Oregon 97124
- **lat**: 45.57427
- **long**: -122.94829
- **full address**: 26385 NW Groveland Dr, Hillsboro, OR, United States, Oregon 97124, 26385 NW Groveland Dr, Hillsboro, OR 97124-9351, United States,North Plains, Oregon

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Rice NW Museum of Rocks and Minerals (https://allevents.in/org/rice-nw-museum-of-rocks-and-minerals/12187941)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sun, 08 Jun, 2025 at 06:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 26385 NW Groveland Dr, Hillsboro, OR, United States, Oregon 97124, 26385 NW Groveland Dr, Hillsboro, OR 97124-9351, United States,North Plains, Oregon
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Rice NW Museum of Rocks and Minerals
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** trips-adventures, parties, entertainment, kids
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Free Guided Tour ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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