This place is beautiful!! It is also small, which makes it an easy half day trip or full day if you combine it with the fossil beds and fossil museum! Definitely recommend going for dawn or dusk for the best lighting!
Beautiful place away from the hustle bustle of city. Perfect for Weekend unwinding. Has a lot of hiking trails and calming campgrounds between the woods. The highlight of the trip was Painted Hills, one of Oregon’s seven wonders. You have to see it to believe it.
And impressive national monuments along the road less traveled in eastern Oregon. The national monument is made up of three separate "Units", Clarno, Sheep Head, and Painted Hills, each of which has its own distinctive character. It was well worth the drive to visit.
Went for the total eclipse and watched the park rangers and the monument do an amazing job at handling (record) crowds and being as amenable as possible so everyone would have a great experience. The trails are relatively easy and short, but the park covers so much diverse landscape that the trails all show interesting finds from fossils to the more modern history of a farming family. The only downside is that the there units of the park are pretty spread out (about an hour between parks). They all highlight entirely different elements though, so all are well worth the drive time.
As usual I didn't appreciate the size and depth of this National Monument and really did not give myself enough time to explore it in detail. That said, my stop at the Thomas Condon Visitor Center was truly enlightening. It included many educational displays and working laboratories where much of the fossil work is performed. The Fossil Beds are layer, upon layer, upon layer of mammal and flora fossil deposits. The monument includes three different and separated sites where the fossils are collected.
John Day Fossil Beds National Monument is a US Park based in Kimberly, Oregon. John Day Fossil Beds National Monument is located at 32651 OR-19, Kimberly, OR 97848, USA.
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