# Michigan Rocks: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

Markdown version of https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/ from vidIQ YouTube Stats. Link to that page, not to this file.

As of 2026-10-29, Michigan Rocks has 583,000 subscribers, 216,676,528 total views, and 732 videos. It ranks #130,435 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [Michigan Rocks](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/). Each video links to its own stats page. The page lists the rest of the channel's videos to signed-in vidIQ users.

## About this sample

- The latest upload vidIQ has for Michigan Rocks is “October Rock Hunt on Lake Superior—Big Waves, Great Rocks”, a long-form video published Oct 23, 2026.
- These are Michigan Rocks’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between May 22, 2026 and Oct 23, 2026 (24 long-form videos and 24 Shorts).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 33,957. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “Puddingstone—from Rock to Sphere” (556,745 views, Sep 22, 2026). Least viewed: “We Found Agates at Get Pickin' in Minnesota” (14,595 views, Jul 31, 2026).
- Median length: 22:34 for 24 long-form videos; 1:02 for 24 Shorts.
- In this sample, Michigan Rocks’s consecutive uploads were a median of 3 days apart (shortest gap 0 days, longest 7 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Oct 29, 2026, so newer uploads have had less time to collect them. These figures describe only the videos listed here, not the whole channel, and do not show why any video performed as it did. Dates are UTC.

## Recent uploads

| Video | Published (UTC) | Format | Views | Duration | Outlier score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [October Rock Hunt on Lake Superior—Big Waves, Great Rocks](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/oo2eJAqDkjc/) | 2026-10-23 | Long-form | 34,827 | 21:31 | 1.18x |
| [Sphere Scraps](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/7VA59W0aa2s/) | 2026-10-21 | Short | 72,388 | 0:31 | 2.89x |
| [Want to Make Stone Spheres? This Highland Park Machine is for You!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/Uj12kItGR1w/) | 2026-10-16 | Long-form | 192,599 | 23:18 | 6.09x |
| [Cleaning Some Agates](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/ntBjfjZtdO8/) | 2026-10-13 | Short | 32,544 | 1:28 | 1.05x |
| [If You Like Fossils, You'll Love this Michigan State Park](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/xXwcAcMM5e0/) | 2026-10-09 | Long-form | 34,574 | 34:08 | 1.09x |
| [I Found Something Rare on Lake Huron](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/F8WYxAiF6cY/) | 2026-10-02 | Long-form | 34,699 | 24:57 | 1.21x |
| [Making a Fossil Sphere](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/8XrwsSdkTS4/) | 2026-09-29 | Short | 76,581 | 1:22 | 2.2x |
| [380 Million Year Old Fossils on Michigan Beach](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/vP6H4u8jIE4/) | 2026-09-25 | Long-form | 23,231 | 22:28 | - |
| [Puddingstone—from Rock to Sphere](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/Cvi9QWUvV6U/) | 2026-09-22 | Short | 556,745 | 2:12 | 15.53x |
| [Puddingstone—from Rock to Sphere](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/Cvi9QWUvV6U/) | 2026-09-22 | Long-form | 37,583 | 2:12 | 15.53x |
| [Making a Puddingstone Sphere](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/4gjXFjTnXvg/) | 2026-09-18 | Long-form | 39,846 | 9:16 | 1.51x |
| [Sphere Collection](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/JacfS_uEJ9o/) | 2026-09-15 | Short | 81,736 | 2:59 | 2.55x |
| [How Hard is it to Find a Petoskey Stone? \[Alpena to Au Gres\]](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/sTpL3li1Fu0/) | 2026-09-11 | Long-form | 51,565 | 25:31 | 1.9x |
| [Bloody Basin Agate Cabochon](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/wnw0SOXJzhU/) | 2026-09-09 | Short | 39,960 | 0:21 | 1.43x |
| [Calico Lace Cabochon](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/b6NParBt78A/) | 2026-09-08 | Short | 29,283 | 0:19 | 1.09x |
| [Green Tree Agate Cabochon](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/rTLf7Fh1Fig/) | 2026-09-07 | Short | 31,745 | 0:18 | 1.26x |
| [One Week at William Holland School of Lapidary Arts](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/F0nXWL845RU/) | 2026-09-04 | Long-form | 33,340 | 25:42 | 1.43x |
| [Mammoth Cave - Great Onyx Lantern Tour](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/FwJWy8UeqL8/) | 2026-09-01 | Short | 17,254 | 1:46 | - |
| [New Sphere Machine Gizmo](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/RJLXvcamXlo/) | 2026-08-28 | Long-form | 122,031 | 9:25 | - |
| [Petoskey Underneath?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/u6eqYkg4RrY/) | 2026-08-26 | Short | 70,186 | 1:08 | 2.92x |
| [Best Agate Hunt Ever](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/owjWVJY5N7E/) | 2026-08-21 | Long-form | 29,290 | 17:32 | 1.44x |
| [Nice Petoskey Stone, Polished](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/pEpafWLcbVg/) | 2026-08-18 | Short | 42,808 | 1:02 | 1.76x |
| [First Time Hunting Agates in a Gravel Pit—We Liked It!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/VtFMWngxCcY/) | 2026-08-14 | Long-form | 28,798 | 15:22 | 1.5x |
| [The Grandkids Find Some Petoskey Stones](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/rcyeDA-ZjQ0/) | 2026-08-11 | Short | 30,634 | 1:31 | 1.01x |
| [Rock Identification with Geologists Nat and Paul](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/fuVcEaz9CEE/) | 2026-08-07 | Long-form | 25,550 | 40:46 | 1.07x |
| [Huge Petoskey Stones](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/eMEb1LhQCjE/) | 2026-08-04 | Short | 28,505 | 1:18 | - |
| [We Found Agates at Get Pickin' in Minnesota](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/g7dm5IKs4V0/) | 2026-07-31 | Long-form | 14,595 | 15:13 | - |
| [A Visit to Kingsley North](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/nyCXUz8Jtno/) | 2026-07-28 | Short | 32,306 | 0:31 | 1.03x |
| [We Started Finding Them Almost Immediately!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/wvxbysCJ0qw/) | 2026-07-24 | Long-form | 17,319 | 13:01 | - |
| [Giant Petoskey Stones at Rockport](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/L9_JgbjuvbI/) | 2026-07-21 | Short | 32,611 | 0:34 | 1.08x |
| [Moose Lake Agate Stampede 2026](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/u1vpONzz3Hw/) | 2026-07-18 | Short | 27,742 | 1:23 | - |
| [First Agate Hunt on this Lake Superior Beach](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/WeFUVInQ3vA/) | 2026-07-17 | Long-form | 19,546 | 11:23 | - |
| [Rockport Fossils](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/Ihm_ZxELZes/) | 2026-07-14 | Short | 30,016 | 0:22 | - |
| [Rockport: Michigan’s Best Fossil Hunting Park?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/-KDTSnTv2Uo/) | 2026-07-10 | Long-form | 15,988 | 22:44 | - |
| [I Paddled over Six Miles to See this Puddingstone](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/Q_E_1pheluM/) | 2026-07-07 | Short | 32,527 | 0:38 | - |
| [I Kayaked to a Giant Puddingstone](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/XcRKUpTVoIY/) | 2026-07-03 | Long-form | 46,381 | 22:41 | 1.37x |
| [Hunting Copper](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/aBYLeQZi6Yc/) | 2026-06-30 | Short | 23,660 | 1:02 | - |
| [Copper Country Rock Hunt with Geology Students](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/moXQakmCvf8/) | 2026-06-26 | Long-form | 43,626 | 26:55 | 1.2x |
| [Tumbling a Little Fossil](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/XmMvblVZWXU/) | 2026-06-23 | Short | 21,600 | 0:59 | - |
| [Agate after Agate on the Keweenaw Peninsula](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/YVEEcZi4pP4/) | 2026-06-19 | Long-form | 18,356 | 8:43 | - |
| [Sphere Made from Rock Over Two Billion Years Old](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/bNxwgpDt2q0/) | 2026-06-16 | Short | 62,357 | 1:36 | 1.55x |
| [We Found Agates AND a NASA Rocket Range!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/GAiF5np-PfQ/) | 2026-06-12 | Long-form | 53,814 | 28:23 | 1.69x |
| [Dan's Tumbled Rocks from Lake Superior](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/Yt9J2k1IRlU/) | 2026-06-09 | Short | 47,785 | 1:43 | 1.06x |
| [These Rocks are Worth Hundreds of Dollars!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/X89-7adnss0/) | 2026-06-05 | Long-form | 34,735 | 28:00 | 1.06x |
| [Tumbling a Speckled Green Rock](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/4CTQHynMUMo/) | 2026-06-02 | Short | 35,403 | 1:00 | - |
| [Michigan's State Gemstone from Rough to Polished](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/L8op8nxD6kQ/) | 2026-05-29 | Long-form | 23,710 | 19:15 | - |
| [Gambiri Agate Acid Soak](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/DPExj4XZERc/) | 2026-05-26 | Short | 35,146 | 0:49 | - |
| [11 Hour Lake Superior Agate Hunt](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@michiganrocks/videos/NHz2AF2GAD8/) | 2026-05-22 | Long-form | 85,994 | 34:38 | 1.86x |

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