Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
Under $25A national monument in central Colorado protecting a dense late Eocene fossil site, including giant petrified redwood stumps and delicate insect fossils.

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A large Colorado state park at the foot of Pikes Peak, known for forests, meadows, rock formations, and wildlife.
21045 Highway 67 South, Divide, CO 80814 · Divide, CO
Mueller State Park covers roughly 5,100 acres on the western side of Pikes Peak. Its terrain mixes conifer and aspen woodland, wet areas near springs, open grassland, and granite outcrops. Visitors can hike, camp, watch wildlife, and in winter snowshoe or ski. The park also has a visitor center, and its history includes Ute hunting grounds, mining-era settlement, and later ranching before conservation groups and state agencies acquired the land.
The closest stops to Mueller State Park, ordered by straight-line distance. A few more like it, plus some different kinds of fun so you can build a full day.
A national monument in central Colorado protecting a dense late Eocene fossil site, including giant petrified redwood stumps and delicate insect fossils.
6.1 mi awaySwitch it up: Museums
Nonprofit society running local history museums in the Florissant area of Teller County, Colorado.
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A family-run narrow gauge steam train ride from the 1894 depot in Cripple Creek past historic gold mining sites.
Transit: reachable by public transit
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Drive, ride the cog railway, or hike to the 14,115-foot summit that inspired 'America the Beautiful.'
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Climb 2,768 steep steps up a former cable railway bed, gaining about 2,000 feet of elevation in under a mile.
Transit: reachable by public transit
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Towering red sandstone formations rise against Pikes Peak in this free Colorado Springs park.
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