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Agate Fossil Beds Visitor Center

About Agate Fossil Beds Visitor Center

The visitor center is open every day except Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years Day. Summer hours are May 15 through September 30. The visitor center features a large diorama of Miocene mammal fossils, 12-minute park movie, and the James H. Cook Collection of Lakota artifacts, a unique collection of American Indian artifacts gifted to the Cook family by Chief Red Cloud and his descendants. Two trails are open every day from dawn till dusk.

Park Passport stamps are available here.

Adapted from National Park Service.

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Photos of Agate Fossil Beds Visitor Center

  1. Agate Fossil Beds Visitor Center, Sioux County01Sioux CountyJllm06 · CC BY-SA 4.0
  2. Inside Agate Fossil Beds Visitor Center02Inside Agate Fossil Beds Visitor CenterChris Light · CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. Agate Fossil Beds National Monument - recreated waterhole fossils03Agate Fossil Beds National Monument - recreated waterhole fossilsJllm06 · CC BY-SA 4.0
  4. Agate Fossil Beds National Monument - recreated waterhole fossils04Agate Fossil Beds National Monument - recreated waterhole fossilsJllm06 · CC BY-SA 4.0
  5. Daeodon (Miocene) P05Daeodon (Miocene) PChris Light · CC BY-SA 4.0
  6. Daemonelix P06Daemonelix PChris Light · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Nearby museums

Make a day of it. 4 more museums are within 39 miles of Agate Fossil Beds Visitor Center; the closest, Trailside Museum of Natural History at Fort Robinson State Park, is about 22 miles away.