May 8 – 14
May 8 – the campsite is pretty on a small lake. So many birds. Had a couple rain storms roll through. Surrounded by mountains and 2 coal power plants. The county is Coal County and so many trucks towing coal on the road. Our site is nice and on the water.
May 9 – provisioning day in town (Price). Needed a lot of groceries and excited that the prices were low!
May 10 – visited the Prehistoric Museum in Price. Had some dinosaur bones and skeletons with other nearby archeological information.
May 11 – Drove to the San Rafael Swell to the Wedge Overlook. Amazing view of what they also call the “Little Grand Canyon. Hiked along the rim for a bit while the kiddo napped, but to hot to go too far for Dexter. The Swell is an amazing part of Utah. Wished we’d have more time to explore!!
May 12 – Visited the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry in the Swell. Total disappointment. They have found a lot of bones from carnivorous dinosaurs but they have all been removed. They had one small building that housed replicas of the bones in and around the dirt. Glad we didn’t have to pay to get in (because of our interagency pass).
May 13 – Back to the Swell but this time we drove down into a canyon via 332/Buckhornwash. Amazing drive, dispersed camping all along the road and most sites were full! At the bottom we visited the Buckhorn Draw Pictogram Panel (amazing drawings, more intricate than most we’ve seen) and a the swinging bridge built by the CCC in the 30s over the San Rafael River.
Pic from google maps. Where we stood at the Wedge Overlook and the canyon we drove down to the petroglyphs and river (at Campground)
Clark Family Adventures 