Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument is located 40 miles west of Colorado Springs, CO, along US-24. One can find large petrified Redwood tree stumps scattered around the grassy meadow of the monument. Some of them are more than 10 ft wide. The details of these petrified Redwood are amazing.

For more information, please see http://www.nps.gov/flfo/index.htm.

Photos in this gallery were taken during a trip in August 2006. Thanks for a wet summer, there were abundant amount of wild flowers.