Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite

Five miles at the end of the "Road To Hell" was the Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite. That was where we were orginally heading until the spotting of the country backway that caused so many problems. Look at the back end of my car! That is the type of red sand we'd driven through. The rest of the car didn't look much better.
Notice where some of the sand/dirt had fallen off the car as we came to a stop.
The Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite is the most important tracksite ever found in Wyoming. Dinosaur tracksites like this from the Middle Jurassic Period are rare in the world.

The tracksite is special because little is known about dinosaurs of that time. Also, it is from an area of Wyoming that some believed was under a vast inland sea during the Middle Jurassic.

The tracks were found in the spring 1997 during a family outing.

Initial findings indicate that many of the footprints were made by meat-eating (theropod) dinosaurs that traveled on a tidal flat along a shoreline.

On the right side of the gorge is where I got my shrimp, oyster and snail fossils.

The curved fossils are sometimes referred to as "dinosaur toes". Some of the smaller shells are oyster shells. This what the fossils look like when still embedded in the dirt.

The area around the tracksite.