For my second and final distraction on my way home from Phoenix, I decided to give the recently declared Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument a quick exploration. Declared in 2014, but President Obama, the park protects a long, deep desert wash where numerous iceage and pre-iceage fossils were found.
I hike out into the desert and find a "tunnel" through one of the canyon walls. It seems that the area is actually a number of interconnected washes. The white desert earth has likely seen its share of teenage parties, as the abandoned campfires and broken bottles give testament to. While there are no park facilities at this time, hopefully, the standard park regulations will be put in place in the near future and this protected land will be be protected.
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