We drove on further south and stopped at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument just west of Colorado Springs, CO. There are many petrified redwood stumps as a result of a volcano many years ago. The stump in the picture below is about 10 feet in diameter at the top.
After spending the night at a state park, we continued on to The Great Sand Dunes National Park in South central Colorado. These dunes are a result of the wind swirling around at the base of the surrounding mountains.
As you can see from the pictures, we drove in a lot of rain today on our way to Rio Grande del Norte in New Mexico at the Colorado border. This was named a national monument just four years ago and I have no pictures of it because I kept waiting for a place that was picture worthy, but we never arrived at that place.
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