• Massive petrified redwood stumps

    Florissant Fossil Beds

    National Monument Colorado

  • Temporary Visitor Center / Trail Closures

    The park is operating with a temporary visitor as it builds a new one. The park is OPEN with normal hours. Please bring your own water. Pit toilets are available for bathrooms. The Sawmill and Hans loop will have period closures. All other trails open.

Junior Ranger Music Page

Ranger Jeff on stage with Secretary of Interior and Director of the National Park Service and lots of kids
Ranger Jeff, lots of kids, the Secretary of the Interior and the Director of the National Park Service sing "Humps, Hooves, and Horns"
 

Music is a fun way to learn about our national parks. Ranger Jeff Wolin from Florissant Fossil Beds has written many fun, singable, danceable songs for Junior Rangers. Enjoy, Enjoy, Enjoy

 
 
 
 
 

Did You Know?

Historic photograph of tourists in the late 1800's fossil hunting near a train

The area now known as Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument had become a popular tourist area by the 1870's.