Park Details

Name:	Agate Fossil Beds National Monument
Address:	301 River Road
	Harrison,
	Nebraska
	69346
Phone:	308-436-9760
Fax:	308-668-2318
URL:	www.nps.gov/agfo

Category

• National park

General Description

Agate Fossil Beds National Monument protects the Miocene age mammal excavation sites that were found here and excavated in the early 1900''s. Also the National Park Service preserves and protects a collection of American Indian artifacts that were gifts to the rancher James Cook. Many of these items were gifts from Red Cloud and the Oglala Lakota Sioux. There is a visitor center with exhibits about the two subjects and a 12 minute movie about the fossil story here. There are also two walking trails, the Fossil Hills trail which is 2.7 miles round trip that visits the historic excavation sites and the Daemonelix trail which is one mile round trip and visits two exhibit cases of the Daemonelix burrows.

Accessibility Features

General Accessibility Features

• Accessible bathrooms
• Accessible viewing areas or outlooks
• Accessible trails
• Accessible picnic tables/areas

Amenities and Lodging

• Accessible gift shops

Information and Interpretation Features

• Nature centers, visitor centers and/or museums that are accessible for people using mobility devices
• Exhibits located on accessible routes
• A website that can be read by screen readers