On our way to Colorado, I'd noticed several national monuments that we'd never stopped at before or even heard of before... hmmm... when did the NPS sneak those in? We decided we'd check out a couple and the first was Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument located in... you guessed it... Florissant, CO. Fossils aren't usually that interesting to us, but we'd never visited this monument before and it was on the way, so what the heck. It turned out to be more interesting than we anticipated.