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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.
Visitor Center 2013
Artist rendition of the new visitor center and research museum facility
After four decades, Florissant Fossil Beds will build its first permanent visitor facility. The new, energy-efficient, sustainably designed building will include large fossil displays and interactive exhibits, a research lab and storage facility, and a bookstore. It is expected to be open in the summer of 2013.
Come check out our new temporary visitor center which is actually bigger, brighter and, more open than the old one! It also has a larger theater!! |
Did You Know?
The area now known as Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument had become a popular tourist area by the 1870's.