The Florissant Fossil Quarry in Florissant, Colorado, has been on my list of places to visit.  It is just outside the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument west of Colorado Springs.  As much as I would have liked to go dig at the quarry, I knew that wouldn’t happen this year.  So I decided to order some shale from the quarry and have it shipped to me.  Even at $7.50 per pound plus shipping it was less expensive to buy the shale than to spend a week on the road getting there and back from Cali