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Tule Springs Fossil Beds NM, Las Vegas NV

Fossil site Source-confirmed findsProhibited, look only
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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

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Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

Rockhounding locality: Ice Age spring deposits on the north edge of Las Vegas, packed with mammoth, camel and dire wolf fossils, protected as a national monument since 2014

NPS documents more than 600 fossil localities in the Upper Las Vegas Wash; famous 1962-63 'Big Dig' excavations

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

No developed trails, water or shade yet
desert heat, flash floods in the wash

Keep exploring nearby

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