Parque
Dino Cliffs Trailhead
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Britni
May 21, 2021
DIFFICULTY LEVEL: Easy /// ROUND TRIP LENGTH: .5 miles GPS COORDINATES: Trailhead: 37.155532, -113.503225 Dinosaur Tracks: 37°9’21″N 113°30’6″W ** No restroom or water supply on trail ** This is a great, short hiking trail for families of all ages! The first part of the trail is a little bit sandy, but doesn’t last too long. It changes to a solid trail that leads right down to the dinosaur tracks. As you bottom out on the trail you will see a slate rock surface in part of the stream bed to the left of the trail. In the hardened sedimentary rock you can find 17 well preserved dino tracks presumed to be from Grallator, Kayentapus, and Eubrontes dinosaurs, which paleontologists suggest were bipedal, meat-eating theropods during the Jurassic Period. Access to the trail head is over a dirt road that is passable by most vehicles.
DIFFICULTY LEVEL: Easy /// ROUND TRIP LENGTH: .5 miles GPS COORDINATES: Trailhead: 37.155532, -113.503225 Dinosaur Tracks: 37°9’21″N 113°30’6″W ** No restroom or water supply on trail ** This is a great, short hiking trail for families of all ages! The first part of the trail is a little bit sand…
Michael
February 6, 2022
This is a single track trail weaving its way along the base of large red rock cliffs and bluffs at the northern edge of Washington City. It consists of slick rock and hard packed dirt that can be sandy in some areas and features views of the unique red rock formations jutting up from the trail as well as distant views of Zion and the city. Dino Cliffs is surrounded by other single track like Church Rocks and Prospector as well as double track trails and dirt roads on the west and south sides of the trail. Since Dino Cliffs is in the boundaries of the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve, it is only slated for non-motorized use and is popular with bikers, hikers, and equestrians. The trail can be accessed from multiple points and combined with many other routes but if you only want to try this trail, the one way length is 1.8 miles with about 680 feet of elevation change. My favorite place to access Dino Cliffs Trail as well as the OHV trails is just north of the Maverik on exit 13 at the Grapevine trail head. You can also access it from Prospector on Prospector's far west end or from Dino Cliffs' west end via jeep trail. If you access it from the west end of Dino Cliffs, you are closest to the signature feature of the trail. There are dinosaur tracks imprinted in the rock near the western end that can be seen from a small detour 100 yards off the main trail.
This is a single track trail weaving its way along the base of large red rock cliffs and bluffs at the northern edge of Washington City. It consists of slick rock and hard packed dirt that can be sandy in some areas and features views of the unique red rock formations jutting up from the trail as we…
Jessica
August 10, 2022
Hiking, mountain bike and horse trail
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Washington, UT