Not too far from Capulin, Clayton State Park houses a patch of dinosaur tracks exposed after the construction of a dam spillway. It is a pretty impressive and relatively accessible collection, requiring only a .25 mile hike from the parking lot in the remote park. Some of the dinosaur prints are so well defined that it is easy to imagine the beasts walking about. In another section, a signed explained where a dinosaur had slipped and used its tail for to keep its balance. These were harder for me to see, but it paints a vivid picture. In all there are 500 identified prints made by eight different species.
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