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Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument

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Designation: National Monument
State: CO
Park address: Florissant, CO
Entrance fee: Per person: $10.00; Park annual pass: $35.00NPS data as of 2026-08-25

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Designation Date: 08/20/1969
Beneath a grassy mountain valley in central Colorado lies one of the richest and most diverse fossil deposits in the world. Petrified redwood stumps up to 14 feet wide and thousands of detailed fossils of insects and plants reveal the story of a very different, prehistoric Colorado.

Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument