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Hi everyone, it’s been a while since I have posted on here. Next summer my family is moving to the Fort Collins area and I was wondering if there were any sites or natural areas to hunt/collect in. I read on fossilspot.com that the south shore of Horsetooth Reservoir (west of Fort Collins) contains Late Cretaceous Fox Hills formation containing “Inoceramus, Ostrea, etc.”. I have already planned to get down to Florissant Fossil Quarry (despite the extremely expensive one hour access fee). My mom has friends with ranches in the central part of the state that have extensive land with mountain ATV trails. I’m still working out the formations of the area, but hopefully they are vertebrate bearing. If they are and include dinosaurs or phorusrhacids, then I would be more comfortable to brave the Mountain Lions, Fire ants and rattlesnakes for them. Near my mom’s friend’s ranch is Monarch Mountain, which is built on Ordovician rocks full of fossils. It is unfortunate that there is not many vert sites in Colorado that you can collect at. However, I will take invertebrate sites too. Of invertebrates I want Baculites or Placenticeras. Any help appreciated.