National Monuments - Nevada

Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument

4/9/2019 We paralleled the Strip, checking out the hotels, but set our GPS destination about 20 miles north to the northernmost of four stops for the Tule Springs National Monument, also rather new and with no NPS services. The unit was established to protect Ice Age paleontological discoveries - fossils found at the site include Columbian mammoths, camelops and American lions, and range from 7,000 to 250,000 years old. The first, third and fourth stops were pretty much just views of the vast flat area where the archeological work has been done (including the “Big Dig”), with the distant big mountains in the haze caused by dust storms here and there. The wind was still fierce here, kicking up lots of sand and grit. Two of the stops did have official NPS signs which we did appreciate. The second stop was in Floyd Lamb Park where there was a Nevada interpretive sign with info about the Springs and human and animal activity there.

View area 1 ...

... and the sign

Distant mountains over the fossil area

Me and Ken

Floyd Lamb Park

Interpretive sign

The last area ...

... with NPS logo

Another view