Guided trips can be arranged with the National Park Service by calling 208-837-4793.

The monument has a visitor center in Hagerman and the site offers visitors hiking, horse and mountain bike trails as well as an overlook to view Oregon Trail wagon ruts. Colossal flooding through the valley of the Snake River 15,000 years ago tumbled rocks from the size of watermelons to compact cars and deposited them in today's Hagerman Valley. Flood waters also exposed the layers and fossils of Hagerman Fossil Beds in the bluffs above the Snake River. From the visitor center in Hagerman you can look across the Snake River to the bluffs that hold a wealth of fossils. From the river level to the top of the bluffs the fossil record spans 550,000 years. Many species of birds and other animals that today frequent the Snake River's banks and nearby wetlands are similar to those fossilized in the bluffs. Native vegetation of the Hagerman area typifies species adapted to high desert conditions. Sage and rabbit bush dominate, along with grasses.

Colossal flooding through the valley of the Snake River 15,000 years ago tumbled rocks from the size of watermelons to compact cars and deposited them in today's Hagerman Valley. Flood waters also exposed the layers and fossils of Hagerman Fossil Beds in the bluffs above the Snake River. From the visitor center in Hagerman you can look across the Snake River to the bluffs that hold a wealth of fossils. From the river level to the top of the bluffs the fossil record spans 550,000 years. Many species of birds and other animals that today frequent the Snake River's banks and nearby wetlands are similar to those fossilized in the bluffs. Native vegetation of the Hagerman area typifies species adapted to high desert conditions. Sage and rabbit bush dominate, along with grasses.