Tag: Picket Wire Canyonlands
-
‘Unique and unforgettable’ opportunity to walk with dinosaur tracks in Colorado
The U.S. Forest Service has opened an experience that only comes around every so often in Colorado. As weather allows every Saturday through June 15, the agency is offering guided auto tours to Picket Wire Canyonlands on the state’s southeast Comanche National Grasslands, outside La Junta. That’s the remote, rugged tract home to a long…
-
New ski terrain, hidden canyons, classic wilderness: Ideas for 2024 adventure in Colorado
How about this for a New Year’s resolution: to explore sides of Colorado you’ve never explored before, feeling your gratitude grow and your physical, mental and emotional health improve as you do. We tend to think a bucket list can set us down that path. Here we offer some ideas: Feast on new terrain Steamboat…
-
‘Jurassic Park’ in Colorado: Discover dinosaurs at these 8 sites
Near the northern Colorado-Utah border, there’s a river-cut land of colorful rock traversed by the short Fossil Discovery Trail. It is an interpretive trail, with educational signs and remembrances of Earl Douglas. He is the paleontologist credited with the 1915 establishment of Dinosaur National Monument. Along that trail through this sweeping dinosaur graveyard, one panel…
-
More dinosaur tracks uncovered in renowned Colorado site
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado rock floor known for keeping North America’s longest stretch of dinosaur tracks just got longer. The U.S. Forest Service recently reported crews cleaning 6 inches of mud and debris from flooding in Picket Wire Canyonlands, the rugged expanse along the southeast plains. In…