(83) Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument

Visited Together:

1. November 2011

Type: National Monument
Region: Rocky Mountain Region
Location: Florissant, CO
Link: NPS website 

Passport Description: This beautiful mountain valley just west of Pikes Peak holds huge petrified redwoods and detailed fossils of ancient insects and plants. Almost 35 million years ago, enormous volcanic eruptions buried the valley. A lake formed, and the fine-grained sediments at its bottom compacted into layers of shale preserving the delicate organisms as fossils.

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 Petrified Forest Loop, November 2011

Big Stump, November 2011 

(75) Fort Union National Monument

Visited Together:

1. June 2009

Type: National Monument
Region: Southwest Region
Location: Watrous, NM
Link: NPS website

Passport Description: Established in 1851 as a guardian and protector of the Santa Fe Trail, the Fort Union site actually held three different forts over its 40-year history. The third and final Fort Union was the largest in the American Southwest.

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 Santa Fe Trail, June 2009

Fort Union, June 2009

(61) Fort Point National Historic Site

Visited Together:

1. July 2007

Type: National Historic Site
Region: Western Region
Location: Presidio of San Francisco, CA
Link: NPS website

Passport Description: Fort Point was constructed between 1853 and 1861 and occupied throughout the Civil War to prevent entrance of a hostile fleet into San Francisco Bay. During World War II, about 100 soldiers occupied Fort Point as part of the protection of the entrance to the Bay.

(40) Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial

Visited Together:

1. October 2005

Type: National Memorial
Region: National Capital Region
Location: Washington, DC
Link: NPS website

Passport Description: This memorial traces 12 years of history through a sequence of four outdoor rooms, each one devoted to one of FDR's terms in office.

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(13) Fossil Butte National Monument

Visited Together:

1. August 2005

Type: National Monument
Region: Rocky Mountain Region
Location: Kemmerer, WY
Link: NPS website

Passport Description: This 50-million year old lake bed is one of the richest fossil localities in the world. Recorded in limestone are dynamic and complete paleoecosystems that spanned two million years. Preservation is so complete that it allows for detailed study of climate change and its effects on biological communities.

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