You can get here in any type of vehicle.  Once you leave highway 191, you will be travelling on a dirt road.

This is a quick and fun adventure to over 200 individual dinosaur tracks!  You will see examples of long-necked herbivores, carnivores (including some raptors), and even some crocodiles!  According to an information kiosk signs, “this site is one of the largest and most diverse tracksites known from the Early Cretaceous time period in North America.”  I visited in the winter, so there weren’t many visitors.  The summer months can be more busy and the ATVers come down and stay at the nearby Courthouse Rock Campground.

From the parking lot to the tracksite, it’s about 900 ft of easy hiking.  It’s more of a stroll than a hike really.  Even though people may not find this desert landscape pretty, I think it’s beautiful in it’s own way.

Eventually you will come to a gated area where there is a wooden boardwalk.  The tracksite is located below all of this so please stay on the trail and enjoy from a distance.



Just before the wooden boardwalk, you will come to one of the first tracks called the “Crocodile Slide”.  Here, you can see where a crocodile some 112 million years ago, slid down on its belly into some water and made this foot print!  It’s easy to see it and imagine a crocodile sliding on what originally was a sandy surface.

Next are the Dromaeosaur Tracks.  This dinosaur is a raptor and has large sickle claw!  According to a sign, this particular dinosaur was about 4 ft tall at the hip.

Next are some theropod dinosaur tracks – some are over 14 inches long.

There are other tracks from either sauropods or an ankylosaurs.

Some large dinosaur tracks are from a ornithopod dinosaur.  These ones are 11 inches wide and tall.

Some of the largest dinosaur tracks are from a sauropod dinosaur with some tracks 19 inches in length!

There are tons of dinosaur tracks crisscrossing all over the place!  Some you can definitely make out and others you can’t really tell what they are.   Still, I really enjoyed my visit and would come back again if I was looking for something to do in the Moab area.  It’s fun to imagine what kind of place this was 112 million years ago and one of the signs says that there was lots of water and marshlands.