TURQUOISE TRAIL

It's glorious outside. Driving on Dinosaur Trail let's you see some lovely fringe landscape--the northward bank can be high enough that you can't see past it, and it becomes a linear display of grassy spikes mixed with tiny shrubs mixed with glowing, crumbling earth.

It makes you wonder why you need all that stretch of open land along the Turquoise Trail. The answer for me is what makes our scenic trail so special. It gives you the sense of infinite openness. You sense space expanding infinitely. Meanwhile, tiny fringes like those you see in the city, cut up and fractured by buildings, force you to appreciate infinity in ever smaller things. What we have in the Turquoise Trail is the ability to balance these two extremes within a single landscape.