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Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
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Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument © Chris Light / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrance sign to Florissant Fossils Beds NM
Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument © NPS / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument © Herb Meyer; National Park Service, Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The Petrolabis gurneyi synonym Labiduromma gurneyi holotype adult male. Priabonian, Late Eocene Florissant Formation, Florissant, Colorado, U.S.A.University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A. specimen UCM-29902
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FLORISSANT FOSSIL BEDS NATIONAL MONUMENT
FLORISSANT FOSSIL BEDS NATIONAL MONUMENT
15807 Teller County Road 1
Florissant, Colorado   80816

Phone: (719) 748-3253
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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.

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Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument is located near Woodland Park
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Area Campgrounds
Cripple Creek KOA Holiday
2576 County Road 81
Cripple Creek, CO
719-689-5647
Woodland RV Park
1301 E. Hwy. 24
Woodland Park, CO
719-687-2009
Bristlecone Lodge
510 Colorado 67
Woodland Park, CO
719-687-9518

Directions
Visitors traveling north/south on I-25: Exit at US 24 West, travel 35 miles to town of Florissant, then follow signs two miles south on Teller County Road 1 to the Visitor Center. Visitors traveling from town of Cripple Creek: Follow Teller County Road 1 north for 16 miles.

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