Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument in Florissant, CO

With the help of the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument you'll have the chance to explore history in the Colorado Springs area. This amazing park, first established as part of our National Park System in 1969, features a number petrified and fossilized insects and plants. Over the years tens of thousands of museum specimens have been collected from the Florissant Fossil Beds, but this certainly doesn't detour from the amazing sights left in the park. In total, it is thought that there are over 100 different species of plants and over 1,000 different species of insects housed at the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, providing a wide view of millions of years of history. Come explore the beauty and the past of the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.