The former Lindenmeier Ranch is in the Soapstone Prairie Natural Area, in northeastern Larimer County, Colorado, United States.

The period immediately preceding the first humans coming into Colorado was the Ice Age Summer starting about 16,000 years ago.

Receding and melting glaciers created the Plum and Monument Creeks, the Castle Rock mesas and unburied the Rocky Mountains.

Large mammals, such as the mastodon, mammoth, camels, giant sloths, cheetah, bison antiquus, and horses roamed the land.

Being limited to one bone, it was likely carried from another area and did not necessarily indicate that the Folsom people hunted camel at Lindenmeier or at other sites.

[14] Investigations of the Lindenmeier site and stone tools recovered from its location began in 1924 by the Coffin family.

[18][19] After the initial discovery, Major Roy G. Coffin also visited the site repeatedly with his brother the Judge and A. Lynn.

In his poem "Flight 857" from his book Notes of an Alchemist, he recorded his reflections on the significance of the Lindenmeier site finds: Nosing in through a blizzard over Denver at thirty thousand feet I think what the earth covers at Lindenmeier there far away to the north those men we never found of ten millennia ago ...[26] The City of Fort Collins purchased the site in 2004 as part of Soapstone Prairie Natural Area, which was opened to the public in 2009.