Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracks
The Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite is the largest tracksite in Wyoming and one of only a few worldwide from the Middle Jurassic Period (160 million to 180 million years old). Until the tracks were reported in 1997, most scientists thought the entire Bighorn Basin and most of Wyoming was covered by an ancient ocean called the Sundance Sea. The tracks were reported in 1997 by Greybull native Erik Kvale while enjoying the scenery with Allen Archer, Rowena Manuel, Cliff Manuel and Fran Paton on BLM-administered lands. To get more information visit http://www.blm.gov/wy/st/en/field_offices/Worland/Tracksite.html .
To get there : Travel approximately eight miles east of Greybull WY (or four miles west of Shell) on US Highway 14 to the Red Gulch/Alkali National Back Country Byway turnoff. Head south on the Byway approximately five miles.
The Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite is the largest tracksite in Wyoming and one of only a few worldwide from the Middle Jurassic Period (160 million to 180 million years old). Until the tracks were reported in 1997, most scientists thought the entire Bighorn Basin and most of Wyoming was covered by an ancient ocean called the Sundance Sea. The tracks were reported in 1997 by Greybull native Erik Kvale while enjoying the scenery with Allen Archer, Rowena Manuel, Cliff Manuel and Fran Paton on BLM-administered lands. To get more information visit http://www.blm.gov/wy/st/en/field_offices/Worland/Tracksite.html .
To get there : Travel approximately eight miles east of Greybull WY (or four miles west of Shell) on US Highway 14 to the Red Gulch/Alkali National Back Country Byway turnoff. Head south on the Byway approximately five miles.
Shell Falls
Shell Creek tumbles down steeply pitched granite and then is soothed and gentled downstream into a quietly running creek. An interpretive center for visitors is located at the Shell Falls Overlook. Adequate parking facilities make it easy to safely pull off the mountain highway.
Shell Creek tumbles down steeply pitched granite and then is soothed and gentled downstream into a quietly running creek. An interpretive center for visitors is located at the Shell Falls Overlook. Adequate parking facilities make it easy to safely pull off the mountain highway.
Devils Kitchen
This exposure of rocks is part of the Cloverly formation, a million year old sequence of sediments containing dinosaur remains. The soft colorful sandstone and shales of the Cloverly Formation form a badlands landscape of isolated spires and weathered hills. In this rock formation is the fossilized remains of Deinonychus, a velociraptor. A map to the area may be obtained from the Greybull Chamber of Commerce.
This exposure of rocks is part of the Cloverly formation, a million year old sequence of sediments containing dinosaur remains. The soft colorful sandstone and shales of the Cloverly Formation form a badlands landscape of isolated spires and weathered hills. In this rock formation is the fossilized remains of Deinonychus, a velociraptor. A map to the area may be obtained from the Greybull Chamber of Commerce.