Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
Colorado
🟢 hikes
$10
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.
Activities
Topics
Entrance fees
$10.00 — Entrance - Per Person
Hours
The Visitor Center open seven days a week. The Visitor Center parking lot gate is locked daily at 4:30 PM. Be sure to park at the Hornbek Homestead if you think your hike may run late - this lot is open 24 hours a day as a designated Dark Sky viewing area.
Conditions
Weather now: ☀️ Clear, 62°F
☁️ 78°/45°
☁️ 85°/49°
☁️ 83°/50°
Things to do
Hiking the Petrified Forest Loop
🟢 Hiking the Ponderosa Loop Trail
Hiking the Geologic Trail
Visitor centers
Florissant Fossil Beds Visitor Center
Not an official safety source — always defer to NPS.gov and rangers for life-safety decisions.
How Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument connects
This park's activities, topics, location, and on-the-ground places — one hop in the graph. Drag to explore; click an activity, topic, or related park to follow it.
Park
Activity
Topic
State
VisitorCenter
PassportStamp
ParkingLot
ThingToDo
Similar parks
Share activities & topics with Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.
