This
is going to be a very incomplete and random page of parks i visit and think
are interesting. My favorite so far is Rocky Mountain National Park. My most
recent visit i saw bighorn sheep, elk, marmot and ground squirrels. That was
just in one hour. The tundra is pretty incredible with all the little wind swept
xeric plants, not to mention the vistas
This
park was an unexpected suprise. The wildflowers where as fine as the tree stumps.
I was lucky because i was with Scott Ogden and Lauren Springer, both experts
in a lot of things. It was quite an experience to learn so much in such a short
time, like the dinosaurs were extinct 35 million years earlier than the fossils
visible here.
I
visited this park based on aTexas Parks and Wildlife show on KLRU, the local
public television station. I was quite distressed to see the hasty capture and
then death of 7 bison. They are being held on 330 acres which ain't diddle for
bison. It is very likely these bison which where use to at least 100,000 acres
will act more domesticated because they basically are going to be walking in
circles. They should haveused more land at Caprock Canyon and used hot wire
like they do at Wichita Mountain National Wildlife Refuge, where the bison roam
pretty much freely over 60,000 acres, instead they have built as they say a
Jurassic park like fence with prison labor. It is the most ridiulous thing i
have seen and is the reason for only fencing 330 acres because this fence must
have cost millions for steel post that are at least 12 feet tall, instead of
thousands for hotwire. I went to the park expecting something other than what
i saw. The canyons are stunning, the park was pretty much empty, i never saw
one person the whole time i was there. It is really a fantastically beautiful
place.The red Permian basinIt had rained so the wildflowers where exceptional.
One could see how this part of Texas is very closely related to Colorado. I
skipped seeing the bison i didn't want to be depressed. Ted Turners bison roam
freely in northern New Mexico, I saw a herd in Colorado behind three strand
barbed wire. Why if everything is big in Texas do we allocate 330 acres for
our bison?
I
spend weekends on a ranch next door and yet i rarely go to this
park. I use to ride horses over there but its been awhile. Its pretty amazing
how wonderful this place is considering its right in our backyard. When i was
a kid i remember sliding down the falls in some cut-offs that use to be my Sunday
church pants and after many times i wore a hole in the backside. Its against
the law to go down the falls now because all these newcomers to Texas are too
stupid to keep from drowning so none of us are aloud to have a good time. I
for one wish they would open them back up, it'd be good for the society as a
whole, a lot more fun and a few less idiots.
Willow City Loop
Well
it ain't a park but it oughta be.
Enchanted Rock State
Natural Area
I
am going to have to go here when its not so hot. Are they all
mad dogs and Englishman crawling this god forsaken granite dome. Or should i
say exfoliated dome,granite batholith. Its got to be one of the most popular
parks in Central Texas consiering it doesn't have much water to speak of, thats
amazing.
I
haven't been here in a couple of years so i am not sure how the fires have
affected the forest. A friend of mine lost about 3000 acres of his old growth
forest, so i am assuming they had some damage. I am most familiar with the
road through Cimmarron Canyon as you are coming from Colorado and going to
Santa Fe, Taos or Angel Fire. This park is part of the Sangre De Cristo Mountain
Range One of my favorite places to go is the Montezuma hot springs outside
of Las Vegas New Mexico on the Armand Hammer United World College Campus.
The spring are actually right on the side of the road in a very rustic setting
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