Road Trips
Our own field trip/road log guides for Wheeler County and the John Day Fossil Beds areas, as well as other portions of Oregon’s geology and natural history, are in preparation.
You can download a pdf road guide for Highway 19, from Spray to the Thomas Condon Center from our cycling page.
http://www.oregonpaleoproject.org/cycling.htm
Here are a few on-line guides--some a bit old (circa 1980) , but you’ll get the idea and they are still pretty accurate.
John Day Country Loop Road Log: Dayville to Kimberly To Monument:
http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/geology/publications/inf/ john_day/sec3.htm
Cathedral Rock
Kimberly to Bend Road Log:
Web page Info
Columbia River Basalts, Lewiston Idaho to Kimberly, Oregon:
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/WesternUSA/Circular838
Cathedral Rock
Road Log, John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Painted Hills Unit to the Park Headquarters and sheep Rock Unit: 75 miles, total. This route takes you along excellent, paved county roads as well as state highways, to see extraordinary views as well as outstanding geology.
http://www.nps.gov/archive/joda/georoadlog.htm