main parking sidewalk
Visitor centers
Along the way Florissant Fossil Beds Visitor Center
Trailhead Visitor Center Area Trailhead 8,393 ft Drive there
Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument · Colorado
Other trails from the Visitor Center Area Trailhead
- Petrified Forest Loop Trail · 0.2 mi
- Visitor Center Area Trail · 0.1 mi
- Sidewalk to Trios Trail
- VC Bypass Walkway
- Visitor Center back sidewalk
- Visitor Center front sidewalk
All 21 trails in Florissant Fossil Beds National MonumentFind a trailOn the parks mapPark on nps.gov
About this trail's facts
The lines are the National Park Service's public trails layer, the trailheads and the waterfalls, views, peaks and historic places along them the Service's public points of interest, read 2026-10-16 and simplified for the map; the length is the line's, end to end. The write-ups are the Service's own "things to do" text, unedited. Heights come from USGS 3DEP through Terrain Tiles on AWS (Mapzen/Tilezen), read along each line and rounded; a short trail on steep ground can be off by a few tens of feet. Closures change: check the park's own site before you go.