Summer Seminar

Heart of America Science Resource Center

Summer 2020 Creation Tour of Yellowstone National Park led by Dr. Jerry Simmons (DocRock) and in conjunction with Noah Webster College

The final dates for the Yellowstone trip tour are Wednesday, June 24^th through Tuesday, June 30^th.  We will start our tour on the evening of the 24^th at the Best Western Motel at Diamondville, WY (next door to Kemmerer) where we can meet and get oriented to our tour plan. I will have a Fossil Fish PowerPoint presentation that same evening to showcase a few of the past and some of the current fantastic finds from the area that are giving tremendous evidence of the Flood. The next day, the 25^th, we start the trip at the fossil fish quarry in Kemmerer where we will spend 1/2 day digging fossil fish and 1/2 day at the Fossil Butte Museum nearby.  Then on the 26^th we will travel north to the Jackson Hole area ,making one or two stops along the way before we spend the evening at the Jackson Hole Bible College. I have made contact with the college and they will put us up for the night at a very reasonable rate (much cheaper than a motel). The president of the college, who is on the Answers in Genesis board of directors, will give us a creation talk that evening. Once we leave Jackson Hole proper on the 27th we will make a couple of brief stops: 1)?? view a sculptors museum showcasing animal scenes, and 2) amazing sites and geology spots on the east side of the Grand Tetons.  On this day we will enter the SW portion of the famous figure 8 tour route of Yellowstone National Park and spend the evening in West Yellowstone. The following three days, the 28^th-30^th, we will have a great time traveling most of the rest of the figure 8 route park sites (Gardiner, MT will be evening stop on the 28^th, Cooke City, MT on the 29^th, and Canyon Village on the 30^th). The morning of July 1^st will be the official end of the Yellowstone Creation Adventure Trip.  Participants will then have three choices: 1) to head toward home, 2) to complete the final segment of the “8” loop along the west side of Yellowstone Lake on their own, or 3) to travel to Cody, WY where there are a number of interesting museums and the world famous Cody Rodeo.  You are welcome to tag along with me as I travel to Cody and then venture into more isolated areas in search of the rock/mineral/fossil treasures that are abundant in WY.I will be headed to WY on June 20^th and most likely leave on July 10^th. 

If you are interested in being a part of this 2020 Creation Adventure, please let us know and make your plans.  I have enclosed preliminary contact information for parks, motels, campgrounds, etc. so you can make your reservations early (now if possible).  We will try to stay together as a group as much as possible and work as a big Christian family with devotions, prayer and lots of good Creation/Christian fellowship.  I am sure, as has been the case on all of our other adventures, we will have times for ministering to interested by-standers.  SO JOIN US ON THIS EDUCATIONAL, INSPIRATIONAL, EDIFYING JOURNEY INTO THIS SPECIAL SPOT IN GOD'S CREATION.

Heart of America Fees for this trip are:

1. $50 nonrefundable registration fee per family sent in before March 8th, 2020. This helps me to know who is serious about this awesome trip and also cover some of the time I have spent in preparing your agenda, making contacts, and getting your trip packet ready for you. This amount will be deducted from the amount charged (see below) if that individual or family takes the tour.  So if you go as an single adult the $50 dollar nonrefundable will be applied to the $200 fee and you would only pay the remaining $150.  If a family goes, then $50 would be deducted from the total for the family. The remaining amount will need to be paid in full on June 24^th, 2020. 

Send your reservation fee payable to “Heart of America Science Resource Center”, 510 N. Lawrence, Haviland,

Kansas 67059

2.  $200 per adult,
3.  $125 per teen ages 13-18
4.  $100 per child ages 6-12
5.  No charge for children 5 and under
6.  Donation for participation in activities with DocRock before or after the tour for those rockhounds who need

 to rock!!!

Jerry  Simmons, "DocRock"

Contact information:  jerry.simmons@barclaycollege.edu or linda.simmons@barclaycollege.edu or  jdkinzer@msn.com (Noah Webster College participants)

Here is the itinerary for this Creation Adventure involving Heart of American Science Center and Noah Webster College.

There are campgrounds in most of the areas we will be staying so you will need to check out those sites if you plan on camping.

Reminder---park entrance fee is $25 per vehicle, so if you have a National park pass be sure to bring it!!

College credit.  Through Noah Webster College some of you may want to gain college credit for this venture.  The trip and the completion of the workbook will merit 2 credit hrs and an addition 1 credit can be gained by doing the follow-up reading/paper assignment.   This is great!

Wyoming Creation Adventure II

Motel and Campgrounds Information

 Please join us for this spectacular geology fieldtrip led by NWC professor, Dr. Jerry Simmons, to collect fossils and rock specimens and visit Yellowstone N.P. and Grand Teton N.P. in Wyoming.