Colorado

A typical visit to Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument is about 1.5 - 2 hours. We recommend that all visitors begin their visit at the visitor center.

At the visitor center, you will receive orientation information and you can see geologic exhibits and fossil displays. The bookstore and bathrooms are also located here.

Behind the visitor center is an outdoor exhibit area where you can see petrified redwood tree stumps and associated exhibits. In the summer, rangers give hourly talks in the amphitheater which is also in the outdoor exhibit area.

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Some of the finest singletrack in the world.

The kokopelli trail starts in outside Fruita in Loma, Colorado and goes all the way to moab, Utah. The first few miles of the trail consisting of the a series of loops (mary's, horsethief, troy built) that over look the colorado river and Colorado national monument are arguably the best.