After passing through the corner of Wyoming we dropped down to northern Colorado and stayed five days near Grand Lake to try to stay cool and to do some hiking in Rocky Mountain NP. We were lucky with weather and wildfire smoke but not so much with road and trail closings. We were content just doing some short close hikes and enjoying amazing weather.
We then continued our journey south and stopped at FlorissantFossil Beds National Monument which is a fairly short trip west from
Colorado Springs. This place is all about the petrified tree stumps and the
history of people exploiting fossils. With the visitor center not being open
due to COVID-19 we don’t know what there was to see in there. There are some
walks outside that remain open with one being a mile long that passes by a
number of petrified redwood tree stumps from 34 million years ago. There are also
some petrified stumps to see right next to the visitor center without having to
go on a long walk.
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