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LocationFlorissant CO
Managed byNational Park Service
SizeLarge — multiple days
Acres5,998 acres
Good forHikingHorseback RidingStargazingSnowshoeingPicnicking

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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