Monday, September 21, 2020

128) City of Rocks National Reserve

Visited: Friday, September 18, 2020

City of Rocks is an entirely different type of weird from Craters of the Moon.  Here, they're not growing lava, but - huge boulders, spaced out randomly across the valleys.  We saw more people rock climbing here than I've ever seen doing that before, probably collectively - every large rock where it was allowed had multiple climbers.

But even more fascinating - at least to me - were the signs of the California Trail present on the (dirt) road through the park; it wasn't difficult to picture wagons passing through.

On the way to City of Rocks we saw a coyote at the side of the road - the second most interesting wildlife of the trip.

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