Visitor center · Harrison, NE

Agate Fossil Beds National Monument Visitor Center — Agate Fossil Beds National Monument

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.

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301 River Road, Harrison, NE 69346
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