I was looking for another short hike in the area and I came across the Anasazi Trail in The Red Cliffs Recreation Area. Some reviews said there were Plebloan ruins, but no petroglyphs, some said petroglyphs and ruins, some mentioned dinosaur tracks.
It was another beautiful area. When we got to the trailhead area there were several trails. Adler and Bud had spied some signs up on a ridge with a narrow path leading up, so that’s the way we headed.
Turns out the signs were next to some dinosaur tracks. These are thought to be from bipedal meat eaters from the Jurassic period. You can just make out the three front toes in the photo. They were much more striking in person.
From there the path went steeply up the side of a canyon.
It gave us a nice view of the entrance road.
We followed the path around the shoulder of the hill.
The path got quite narrow and eventually led to a skiddy slope down to a wash. The wash was well traveled so we continued up it.
We were in another canyon with red rocks and blue sky all around.
The sides got steeper and the bottom narrower.
Eventually we came to a place where it would be a scramble up rocks with no sign of a well worn path, ruins or petroglyphs.
We turned around there and walked back down the wash and when we were nearly back came to the trail that was probably the one to the ruins and (maybe) petroglyphs. But by then we were hot and tired and decided to be satisfied with dinosaur tracks and another beautiful canyon. We choose the short walk back to the truck and air conditioning.
On the Roam Again 