Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument
A part of the fossil beds withGass Peak in the background
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Nearest city	Las Vegas, Nevada
Coordinates	36°22′16″N115°18′22″W / 36.371°N 115.306°W /36.371; -115.306
Area	22,650 acres (9,170 ha)
Established	2014
Governing body	National Park Service
Website	Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument

Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument, aUnited States National Monument nearLas Vegas,Clark County, Nevada, was established in 2014 to protectIce Age paleontological discoveries. The 22,650-acre (9,170 ha) monument is administered by theNational Park Service.^[1]

The national monument is located in theUpper Las Vegas Wash and protects part of theTule Springs.^[2] The wash area also includes several patches of the rareLas Vegas bear poppy. The land was designated after a local campaign to permanently protect the landscape as a national monument.^[3][4][5]

Paleontology studies began at Tule Springs in 1933 when the bones of aColumbian mammoth were discovered by quarry workers.^[6] Other fossils found at the site includeCamelops,ground sloth,dire wolf,Teratornis,Smilodon Fatalis andAmerican lion, and range from 7,000 to 250,000 years old.^[7][8][9]

The Tule Springs Fossil Beds passed both houses of Congress in December 2014 and signed into law by PresidentBarack Obama on December 19, 2014, under Section 3092(a) of theNational Defense Authorization Act for 2015.^[10][11]

The Tule Springs Fossil Beds have two official and temporary trails. One is the Tule Springs loop, a flat 1.7-mile loop around the first fossil bed, and the second is the Tule Springs long loop, a 2.3-mile loop around the entire fossil bed, which has the hiker climbing over the fossil bed. These trails are accessible at the north end of N. Durango Drive.

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