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Morrison is an incorporated home rule town in Jefferson County, Colorado, at the foothills west of Denver; it was incorporated on January 29, 1906, following a unanimous incorporation election on January 9, 1906, and its first mayor was Thomas Cowan Morrison, the founder's son.

The town is named after George Morrison (1822-1895), a Canadian-born stonemason who immigrated to the Mount Vernon area in 1859, founded the Morrison Stone, Lime, and Town Company, and platted the town in 1874; Mount Morrison is also named for him.

George Morrison's red sandstone building stone was used in Denver landmarks including the Brown Palace Hotel and Union Station, and with Governor John Evans he brought the Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad to Morrison in 1874.

The 2020 census counted 396 residents and 114 households in Morrison, an unusually low household count because a large share of the town's residents live in group quarters.

The Late Jurassic Morrison Formation, one of the world's most famous dinosaur-bearing rock units, is named after the town; near Morrison in 1877, Arthur Lakes found the holotype fossils of Stegosaurus armatus and Apatosaurus ajax, discoveries that fed the Marsh-Cope "Bone Wars," and Stegosaurus is now the Colorado state fossil.

The Morrison Natural History Museum displays fossils found locally, and Cretaceous dinosaur tracks are preserved nearby at Dinosaur Ridge.

Red Rocks Park and its famous Red Rocks Amphitheatre lie just outside the town, visible in the background of views of Morrison.

The Morrison Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

Morrison sits at an elevation of 6,368 feet, uses the motto "The Nearest Faraway Place," and is served by its own post office under ZIP code 80465.

Long known as a speed trap where traffic fines made up nearly half of its budget, Morrison disbanded its police department in 2025, and law enforcement is now contracted to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office.