A long day but a good one! Lots of hiking options here. Trails I went on:
Desert Voices: Nice desert hike looking at surrounding colored hills.
Green River: Split Mountain area. Lots of changing Green River views.
Lizard Petroglyphs: As the name suggests there are lots of Lizard Petroglyphs. The trail continues on to a high point with some nice mountain views.
Box and Hog Canyon: Canyon hikes leaving from an old ranch area. Both canyons end in steep walls.
Of course no trip to this park is complete without checking out the Quarry Exhibit Hall. A large enclosed space containing a wall filled with dinosaur bones. In the Fall they were re-doing the parking lot and discovered dinosaur bones. Not surprising! While I was there today they had an area cordoned off and they were excavating dinosaur bones in the parking lot. The people working on it were very open to questions and pointed out all the exposed bones. Some obvious and some apparant only after they pointed at them. The Fossil Discovery trail leaves from here. On this trail you can see dinosaur bones in some of the walls you pass. Also lots of different rock types as you pass through long periods of time.
This was the last day of a three day trip. It occured to me that each day I spent a fair amount of time near the Green River. From the confluence of the Yampa and the Green to Flaming Gorge and today the Green at Dinosaur NM.
