What you might ask is Adobe Town? Well it would be a good question, as the first four years we lived here I thought it was a ghost town or something. Turns out it's a place in the desert East of Rock Springs with really neat geography and it's pretty remote. The roads to it are all dirt and the one we took went right through a very remote working ranch. After you got through the ranch, the roads got worse.
We spent two nights camping in Adobe Town this weekend and can't believe we've never been there before. This is the perfect place for early season hiking and camping when there is still snow in the mountains. With all our moisture this spring, it was green and full of flowers.
This was the view from our campspot. In my mind, this Adobe Town area is a cross between Bryce Canyon and the Black Hills. It's beautiful. This is called the Adobe Town Ridge and we camped on top of the ridge.
Like I said there were flowers everywhere. These were big flowers for the desert and came in white and all shades of pink. I think some call them Desert Roses.
On Saturday we went for an 11 mile hike. We hiked down to the bottom of the ridge and hiked about 5 miles, climbing out and walking back along the top. There are a lot of beautiful birds, ground birds and what I think were swallows. In addition, there are lots of antelope and wild horses in the area. The horses are so beautiful; they like to run from you, but then often, they'll circle around and follow you a bit. There is an elk herd in the area, but we didn't see any elk.
Indian paintbrush.
The rock formations were stunning and there are many types of rock, including both red and green rock.
To get to this area one drives by many remote oil and gas wells. For the past few years, there has been a group trying to protect Adobe Town from drilling and I can see why. It would be very sad to sit on that ridge and see a gas well. We will go back to enjoy the quiet and beauty of this place.
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