Is this really on Earth?
What a trippy place. North Unit was home to some very otherworldy sight
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Luckily, there were no road closures in the North Unit Park area. Although, some portions of the 14-mile one-way pavement road turned to gravel; wear and tear from the harsh winter as well as recent rains.
* The highlight of this area was to see the cannonball concretions. Truly jaw-dropping, these rocks are round!
* Yet another highlight was to visit the Juniper Campground area. I had originally intended on us staying on-site here, but so glad we didn’t. The campground is much more suited to small RVs and vans. Big Rigs not-so-much. Then, to learn of the harsh weather impacting road conditions, Clark nor Jim or I would’ve been happy driving him into the Park. Additionally, the water main to the campground was temporarily shut off due the recent rains. Nonetheless, we enjoyed a nice leisurely hike on the Little Mo Nature Trail and afterwards enjoyed a picnic within the camp.
* And of course the most popular highlight in the Park is the breathtaking River Bend Overlook. The stone shelter was built in the 1930’s by the Civilian Conservation Corps.
* The highlight of this area was to see the cannonball concretions. Truly jaw-dropping, these rocks are round!
* Yet another highlight was to visit the Juniper Campground area. I had originally intended on us staying on-site here, but so glad we didn’t. The campground is much more suited to small RVs and vans. Big Rigs not-so-much. Then, to learn of the harsh weather impacting road conditions, Clark nor Jim or I would’ve been happy driving him into the Park. Additionally, the water main to the campground was temporarily shut off due the recent rains. Nonetheless, we enjoyed a nice leisurely hike on the Little Mo Nature Trail and afterwards enjoyed a picnic within the camp.
* And of course the most popular highlight in the Park is the breathtaking River Bend Overlook. The stone shelter was built in the 1930’s by the Civilian Conservation Corps.
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“…so fantastically broken in form and so bizarre in color as to seem hardly properly to belong to this earth“. Theodore Roosevelt