VIDEO: John Day Fossile Fields Painted Hills Unit 08_22_2017

bb_94401 wrote:
If you visit the John Day Fossil - Painted Hills National Monument a nice primitive campsite can be found right on the John Day river to the west (44.738701, -120.282696) of the BLM Priest River site (44.739291, -120.271239)



Both sides of the river are BLM land across the river are more "painted hills"



Nice view down Shaw Canyon

That's a sweet spot. We left there and ended up in the Mahuer National Wildlife Refuge. Really neat place.

If you visit the John Day Fossil - Painted Hills National Monument a nice primitive campsite can be found right on the John Day river to the west (44.738701, -120.282696) of the BLM Priest River site (44.739291, -120.271239)



Both sides of the river are BLM land across the river are more "painted hills"



Nice view down Shaw Canyon

Thanks for sharing this with us! Beautiful area and fun video!

Dak

Nice place. I was there last October and only saw 2 other vehicles.

Very nice video of your adventure, another place to add to my bucket list.

So that's what it looks like without 800 cars double parked on the narrow roads. Many more kept circling trying in vain to get a piece of real estate to call their own. My fave was the guy in an Excursion towing a tandem axle 36 foot bumper pull around dog leg turns that had people parked 3/4 on the the road on both sides of the one lane (12 foot wide) dirt road. How did he do that? Very slowly with all the kids and dogs roaming around. Every little 5 foot x 15 foot patch along the road that could possibly hold a Subaru was filled, with myriad tents adorning the landscape.
The place actually looks pretty good considering the abuse it took for those 3 or 4 days before Eclipse 2017.
jefe

Nice video. Thanks.

As fossils go Dave, you're one of a kind.
It's a neat place and we'll be showing the old gang at the fossile center soon. ML8 ML8 off to work I go.Take care...

Great production Jeff, you're a pro! And boy it looks crowded and touristy. My wife found a fossil there thirty years ago. Of course I was only thirty-three but already fossilizing. We were the only people there.