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Great Sand Dunes National Park — NPS No-Collection Control
Rocks, minerals, sand and natural features · Alamosa/Saguache
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Jamestown Fluorite / Mineral District Research
Fluorite and hydrothermal minerals · Boulder
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PSICC 2026 Stage 2 Fire Restriction Control
Current trip-day fire restrictions · Central Colorado
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Pike-San Isabel Rockhounding Policy Control
Common rocks/gems, prospecting and fossils · Central Colorado
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Browns Canyon National Monument — Geology Collection Authority Hold
Granite, colorful rock outcrops and monument geology · Chaffee
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Buena Vista / Upper Arkansas Pegmatite Research
Quartz, feldspar, garnet and pegmatite minerals · Chaffee
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Mount Antero Aquamarine District
Aquamarine, smoky quartz, feldspar, mica and garnet · Chaffee
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Mount White Aquamarine District
Aquamarine-bearing pegmatites · Chaffee
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Ruby Mountain Garnet Research
Garnet and volcanic/mineral specimens · Chaffee
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Lebanon Mine Tour — Gold Panning Program
Gold panning after historic silver-mine tour · Clear Creek
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Mighty Argo — Gold & Gem Panning
Real placer gold and prepared gemstone panning · Clear Creek
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Phoenix Gold Mine — Creek/Underground Gold Panning
Gold panning in a structured private mine-tour program · Clear Creek
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Devils Head / Rampart Range Smoky Quartz Research
Smoky quartz, feldspar and pegmatite minerals · Douglas
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Gilman / Eagle Mine Mineral District
Rhodochrosite, sulfides and historic ore minerals · Eagle
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Paint Mines Interpretive Park — Rocks & Minerals Protected
Selenite clay, jasper, colorful geologic formations and protected natural resources · El Paso
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Pikes Peak Batholith Amazonite / Smoky Quartz District
Amazonite, smoky quartz, fluorite and pegmatite minerals · El Paso/Teller
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Garden Park Fossil Area — Protected Paleontology Control
Dinosaur fossils, tracks, eggs and rare paleontological resources · Fremont
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Cañon City / Fremont County Petrified Wood Research
Petrified wood and fossil-bearing geologic units · Fremont
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Douglas Pass Fossils — Museum Program Watch
Eocene fossil leaves and insects in supervised shale-splitting program · Garfield
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Hidee Gold Mine — Keep-What-You-Find Panning
Gold ore, gold and gems through structured visitor panning · Gilpin
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Kremmling Cretaceous Ammonite Locality — No Fossil Collection
Cretaceous ammonites and diverse invertebrate fossils · Grand
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Kremmling Area Fossil & Rock Research
Common fossils, sedimentary rocks and local mineral occurrences · Grand
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Leadville Mineral District Research
Silver-lead-zinc-gold and diverse ore minerals · Lake
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Colorado Diamond / Kelsey Lake Research
Diamond occurrence and kimberlite context · Larimer
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Rocky Mountain National Park — NPS No-Collection Control
Rocks, minerals and natural features · Larimer/Grand
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Trinidad Lake State Park — Leave What You Find Control
K-Pg boundary, sandstone, shale and geologic features · Las Animas
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Mygatt-Moore Quarry — Supervised 2026 Paleo Digs
Jurassic dinosaur fossils in supervised museum field programs · Mesa
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Calamity Camp — Residual Radiation Safety Control
Historic vanadium-radium-uranium mining camp and radioactive minerals · Mesa
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Colorado National Monument — NPS No-Collection Control
Rocks, minerals, fossils and natural features · Mesa
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Mica Mine / Rough Canyon — Geology Viewing Control
Historic mica-mine geology and mineralized landscape · Mesa
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Rabbit Valley / Mygatt-Moore — Vertebrate Fossil Protection Control
Jurassic dinosaur bones and in-place paleontological resources · Mesa
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Dinosaur National Monument — No Natural Resource Collection
Fossils, rocks and natural features · Moffat
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Mesa Verde National Park — Cultural/Natural Resource No-Collection
Rocks, minerals, fossils and cultural materials · Montezuma
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Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park — No Collection
Rocks, minerals and natural features · Montrose
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Arapaho & Roosevelt NF / Pawnee NG — 2026 Stage 2 Fire Control
Dynamic fire restriction / trip safety control · North-central Colorado
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White River NF 2026 Stage 2 Fire Control
Current Stage 2 fire restrictions and local closures · Northwest/Central Colorado
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Governor Basin 2026 Mine-Cleanup Closure Control
Historic mine district access and abandoned-mine cleanup · Ouray
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Bachelor Syracuse Mine — Gold Panning
Gold and other metals in structured stream panning · Ouray
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Ouray / San Juan Mineral District Research
Quartz, sulfides and historic precious/base-metal minerals · Ouray/San Juan
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Sweet Home Mine Rhodochrosite Locality
Rhodochrosite, tetrahedrite, quartz and sulfides · Park