Thursday morning we decided to spend another day in Thermopolis, WY. The town is on the corner of The Wind River Indian Reservation, is was a part of it but when the gov. discovered the hot springs they decided it would be nice to develop and paid the Indians $60k for it in the late 1800's. The Big Horn river races north through this small town. We spent the day touring the attractive Hot Spring State park where you can bathe in a 104 degree pool, checked out a local buffalo herd, visited the WY Dinosaur Center and Dig and went to one of the 60 identified dig sites. The one we visited was called a Jurassic feeding site and had dinosaur bones and foot prints, it dated back around 150 million years ago, a relatively young site.
Pics: leg and rib bones, more dig sites, Nita and view of Thermopolis and Big Horn river from surrounding hill.
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