Watchable Wildlife Trail

Just outside of Flagstaff is the Watchable Wildlife Trail. It's a wonderful 1 1/2 mile loop trail that goes through ponderosa pine forest, follows a large meadow on one side, and has its own aspen grove. We went there earlier this month to try and capture the fall colors in the aspens.

Unfortunately, most of the aspen grove had either not changed colors or had succumbed to whatever has been killing so many of the aspen groves in Flagstaff. But it was still a GREAT walk and good exercise for Daniel, who walked (and ran) the whole way around!

You can see the new aspens on an old burned area!

Daniel loved the signs along the trail and had to stop and look at each one. He wanted to see all the wildlife that each depicted! We didn't see anything exciting, but I pointed out the tracks in the dirt and that was it. We followed the tracks of...elk, mule deer, pronghorn, and oryx. Yes, oryx. They are in a great story that Daniel loves, so he decided the footprints were from an oryx. But the pronghorn got second place for most exciting footprint and animal to look for!

Here are a few photos from this same trail and aspen grove last year. We were also there in October. My, how Daniel has changed in a year!