Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Petrified Forest Loop - Florissant, Colorado - June 2024

A hike through Florissant national monument.
Experience the Fossil History of Colorado
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.