Paleontology
The Royal Gorge Field Office manages a broad range of fossil resources in eastern Colorado. Immediately surrounding Canon City, Colorado where our field office is located, one can find fossils ranging from the Ordovician Harding Formation to the Cretaceous Vermejo Formation.
Information about the fossil resources managed by the Bureau of Land Management is available through the Cultural and Fossil Resources and Tribal Consultation Group. This website has good information about cultural, historic, and paleontology resources.
For more information about fossil collecting on public lands.
The BLM offers a wide variety of educational information about fossils and virtual tours of fossil localities.
Additional Paleontologic Resources
A great place to learn about the paleontology resources of the Royal Gorge Field Office is through the
Dinosaur Depot, located in Canon City. The
Dinosaur Depot has substantial information on the Garden Park Fossil Area, an internationally significant area located north of Canon City.
The BLM's Royal Gorge Field Office is home to the Garden Park Fossil Area which is located approximately 5 miles north of Canon City, Colorado. The Garden Park Fossil Area is currently managed as an Area of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) due to the high scientific value of dinosaur fossils that have been recovered from the area and the presence of the Brandegee wild buckwheat which is listed in Colorado as a sensitive plant species.
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