purgatoire river canyon

This is so wortyh seeing, but go early to avoid heat even in fall and spring, take lots of water! Give yourself lots of time and do some exploring among the cliffs and rocks for Native American petroglyghs . While hiking in I did see couger traks and a fresh set of Black Bear tracks! Cool huh! The bear had walked the trail ahead of me for about a mile. You could see his prints very clearly in the sand. To see all of the Dino tracks you will need to cross the river so go when the water is low. This place is worth the effort to drive and hike into. When I went I only saw one person and that was on the way out. He was a Native AAmerican who was nice enough to clue me in on a couple good places to see the petroglyghs. About mid way you find a big split rock on the edge of the trail. Look between the rocks, you will need to crawl in. There are some great ones there. It is five miles back to the dino tracks mostly easy flat walking, on the way back the hikr back out og the canyon was a bit of effort and thats when the extra water would have been nice, (I had arived in the early morning at the trail head ,saw coyote on the way in getting out of the jeep I could hear them yipp'in all over the place) pretty wild area!