.25 Mile Roundtrip Hike On The Side Of A Mesa

Just off the La Sal Loop Road, east of Castle Valley and south of Upper Colorado River Scenic Byway 128 is the incredible and exciting Bull Canyon Dinosaur Tracksite. At the site there are quite a few tracks in the exposed sandstone but none of them are as awesome as the ones directly on the edge of the steep cliff that overlooks Bull Canyon. The landscape was a lot different 165 million years ago when the Therapods laid down the tracks on the banks of an inland sea and long before the La Sals were pushed up which created this cliff. It’s hard to believe there was a whole bunch of water where the sandstone now burns in the southwestern sun. There is a toilet at the site and you can count on it being pretty quiet since it’s so far from Moab.

Also, make sure to walk out through the scrub oak and ponderosa pines to the north where you’ll get a solid view of the back of the Fisher Towers. These tracks were laid in the same kind of sandstone, Entrada Sandstone, that the Willow Spring Tracks were laid in.