Tule Spring Fossil Beds National Monument info sign (view NW) |
Tule Spring Fossil Beds National Monument info sign (view N) |
Corn Creek Road, continuing past the information kiosk (view SE) |
Early on, Corn Creek road passes through Creosote-Bursage habitat |
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The the road passes the first of the Shadscale Scrub Habitat (view E) |
Approaching turn-off to Corn Creek Village (view E) |
Corn Creek Village Road (view S from Corn Creek Road) |
Approaching wildlife refuge boundary sign (view E) |
Refuge boundary sign (view E) |
Refuge boundary sign (view E) |
Approaching automatic entrance gate (view E) |
Approaching information sign (view E) |
Information sign (view E) |
Automatic gate closed between sunset and 4am (view E) |
Approaching automatic gate (view E) |
Approaching automatic gate (view E) |
Automatic gate, when open, slides to the right (view SE) |
Automatic gate, when open, gate slides to the right (view SE) |
Approaching info sign (view E) |
Info sign: street-legal vehicles only (view E) |
Re-entering the lower-elevation Shadscale Scrub Habitat |
Saltbush flats -- home for sparrows and thrashers (view ENE) |
Birder looking for Bell's Sparrow and Le Conte's Thrasher |
Check the Mesquite trees for Le Conte's Thrasher (view S) |
Corn Creek Road in the lower-elevation Shadscale Scrub Habitat |
A colony of Mining Bees on the edge of the road |
A colony of Mining Bees on the edge of the road |
Corn Creek Road climbs back into Creosote-Bursage Scrub habitat |
Corn Creek Road at Service Road to Boneyard (view E) |
Corn Creek Road at 1st Service Road to maintenance area (view E) |
Corn Creek Road at 2nd Service Road to maintenance area (view E) |
Corn Creek Road approaching exit from Visitor Center parking |
Corn Creek Road approaching exit from Visitor Center parking |
Corn Creek Road at exit from Visitor Center parking |
Passing the exit from Visitor Center covered parking |
Corn Creek Road approaching backcountry sign-in station |
Corn Creek Road at the backcountry sign-in station |
These are the Nuwuvi Homelands (sign at sign-in station) |
Backcountry sign-in station |
Backcountry sign-in register box |
Corn Creek Road approaching Visitor Center parking entrance |
Corn Creek Road approaching Visitor Center parking entrance |
Corn Creek Road at Visitor Center parking entrance |
Passing Corn Creek Visitor Center parking entrance (view from road) |