Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite — Attraction in Greybull

Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracks make for a cool, unique little pitstop if you’re driving through this part of Wyoming.

For one, the scenery is as beautiful as just about anywhere else in this part of Wyoming.

You have to go down a bit of dirt road to get to the dinosaur track site, but it’s pretty smooth. As long as it’s not excessively muddy, you can probably make it in just about any vehicle.

The site of the tracks includes some picnic tables and a better restroom than you’d expect for a place so remote.

The tracks themselves are pretty cool. Some of them, it’s honestly hard to tell that they’re dinosaur footprints. Others are clear as day.

There are plenty of informative signs about the area that help put everything in perspective and inspire the imagination. You’re likely to find some fossilized prehistoric snails too! We thought they were dino claws at first, but we still thought it was cool when we realized they were snails.

Overall, this is a very unique place to stop, truly unlike any other place you might stop on...

First and most importantly, if it has rained in the previous days or there is even the slimmest chance for rain, DO NOT GO without a four-wheel drive vehicle. The road is thin to sparse gravel over the shale bed-"rock". It is NOT rock. It gets quite soft and swallows your tires. The first dip down Red Gulch Road is steep and will make you question getting back out...for good reason! There is almost no signal either for cell service, so if you get stuck, you may be there a while. I'm a geologist that has taken students here multiple times. It is a great site IF you have students or people in your group that appreciate nuanced fossils, meaning they are powerful but very subtle. They will only wow people that really like dinosaurs. We actually were more impressed by the small marine fossils eroding out of the shales. But the footprints are cool once you get a sense of what...

In order to reach the track site, we left highway 14 and drove 5 miles down a gravel road. There's no cell service and honestly we were concerned that we might be lost forever! There are warning signs about not using the gravel road in wet conditions. We had a crusty four wheel drive vehicle and it was a dry day so we had no trouble. The one lane half required us to pull over twice. Our visit to the dinosaur tracks was private. According to the visitor register only a handful of cars come daily. It was a great family experience. Our teenager was really into finding the tracks almost like a scavenger hunt. Our 4-year-old enjoyed throwing rocks! There are warning signs about rattlesnakes. We stayed on the boardwalk and the dance floor. We never saw...