September 28 2018
Our day started slowly with a leisurely breakfast of bacon and eggs. We were in no hurry to leave our campsite, the views in every direction were spectacular.
Around noon, we headed to the Visitors’ Center, checked out the displays, and watched a film about the National Monument. A very short drive from the Visitors’ Center is the Quarry Exhibit Hall. The hall looks like a giant green house built into the side of the mountain. It features a great wall of bones of over 1500 fossils embedded in rock. Incredibly the remains of over 400 different types of dinosaurs were discovered in 1909 in this exact spot along the Green River. These fossils are over 149 million years old. Mind Blowing.
Leaving the Exhibit Hall we took a self guided tour along Cub Creek Road, the only paved road in this part of the National Monument, for about 10 miles.
Along the road we stopped multiple times to marvel at a variety of pictographs and petroglyphs created by ancient inhabitants thousands of years ago. At the end of this road is the old cabin of Josie Morris, a reputed from of Butch and Sundance, who was married 5 times, but preferred the single life. While at Josie’s place, we rolled out the awning on the van, set up our chairs and table, and enjoyed a nice shaded lunch.
We returned to our campsite around 5 pm, and soaked up the scenery for the rest of daylight until we dined under the stars on steak and Lisa Woodward’s home grown potatoes.
After dinner we sat around the campfire, watching the moon rise, and staring at the stars on a sky that was totally devoid of light pollution from any tony or village.
A fabulous day!
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