Día 1

• Echo Park Road

  The Echo Park Road is a 14-mile (one way) unpaved road that takes drivers from the Harpers Corner Road to the banks of the Green River at Echo Park. While much of this road is graded and covered with gravel, high clearance vehicles and four-wheel-drive are strongly recommended.

• 9:05 - 7.6 millas / 36 minutos - 9:41

  Yampa Bench Road

  The 18 mile (29 km) unpaved Yampa Bench Road offers visitors a look into the quieter side of Dinosaur. Running along a "bench" of land high above the Yampa River, visitors can experience incredible views and historic sites. High-clearance, four-wheel-drive (4WD) vehicles are strongly recommended for this rugged road. The road is impassable when wet.

• 9:46 - 1.3 millas / 6 minutos - 9:53

  Historic Chew Ranch at Pool Creek

  In 1910, Jack Chew was searching for a good home for both his family and his cattle. He found it here, in the area known as Pool Creek. In a time and place where self-reliance was as necessary as water, Pool Creek provided the raw materials the Chew family needed to build their future. In addition to critical water sources, the surrounding hills offered good winter grazing and timber for building homes, storage houses, fences, and fires in the cold winter. In their time here, the Chew family planted orchards and gardens, and dug irrigation ditches. With hard work and nature's support, they made a home that sustained them for more than half a century. Jack's son, Rial Chew, sold the 1,900 acres of the ranch within Dinosaur National Monument to the National Park Service in 1966.

• 9:58 - 1.6 millas / 7 minutos - 10:05

  Pool Creek Petroglyphs

  These unusual petroglyphs are located approximately 1½ miles from the Echo Park Campground. They can be easily seen with an easy walk from the road. These petroglyphs feature dot-pattern designs and are high above the creek along the rock face.

• 10:35 - 0.4 millas / 3 minutos - 10:39

  Whispering Cave

  Located approximately one mile from the Echo Park campground along the Echo Park Road, this fissure in the sandstone rock provides a cool and shady spot to rest on a hot day.

• 10:44 - 0.5 millas / 2 minutos - 10:47

  Mitten Park Trail

  This hike takes you through a diversity of scenery, it follows a faint path through the grassy meadows of Echo Park to cliffs south of the Green River. Look for ancestral Native American petroglyphs on the cliffs. The trail includes a small rock scramble in one area and slickrock section. After crossing a ridge, the view of Mitten Park opens up and the trail descends. when river levels are lower, a broad sandy beach is present along the Green River. This makes a nice turn around point. The beach may be completely covered when rivers levels are high. If the river levels are very low, you can follow the river's edge for a view into Whirlpool Canyon.

• 12:47 - 0.6 millas / 2 minutos - 12:49

  Confluence Trail

  Leaving from the Echo Park Campground, this trail wanders through Echo Park towards the confluence of the Green and Yampa rivers alongside the towering Steamboat Rock. The trail ends at the mouth of Sand Canyon.
  
  Sand Canyon is open to off-trail hiking for an 8-mile loop back to Yampa Bench Road, however it is not marked and considered moderately difficult in terms of terrain. Some route finding and navigation skills required along with occasional scrambling.

• 13:49 - 0.1 millas / 1 minuto - 13:50

  Echo Park

  Echo Park is located in the heart of Dinosaur's canyon country. Here, the Yampa River flows into the Green River, which winds around the massive feature known as Steamboat Rock. The meeting of the two rivers along with nearby geologic faults created some of the monument's most dramatic scenery.
  
  Echo Park provides many opportunities to enjoy remarkable surroundings, discover ancestral Native American petroglyphs or explore the area's homsteading and ranching history. You can watch watch river rafters float past on the Green River. Picnicking and camping are also available in the area. A spectacular display of stars is visible in the night sky due to the lack of any light pollution from nearby towns and cities.