4-3-2011 Hiking Devil's Den's Yellow Rock Trail

On a beautiful spring day we decided to make the hour drive down to Devil's Den State Park to hike the Yellow Rock Trail. The three-mile long trail ascends about 300 feet to the top of the sandstone bluffs where you are provided and unobstructed view of the surrounding hills and Lee Creek Valley. Along the way there are several small caves and crevices that you can explore...we chose not to. Haley enjoyed picking the flowers, finding bugs, and collecting sticks. Haley's favorite flower to pick was the yellow buttercups.

 These Buttercups were Haley's favorite flower to pick during this hike.

 Collecting her sticks

 Looking for more flowers. Renee just wants to get going with the hike :-)

 

 Sandstone Bluffs

 Small cave that we didn't go in.

 Renee spotted this Eastern Fence Lizard basking in the sun.

 At the top! Sorry we don't have any pictures of Lee Creek Valley or the other surrounding views because as you'll see with the next picture, we got distracted.

 Renee was about to sit down on a rock when this little guy (about 3 feet long) decided to let her know that the rock was already taken.

 It turned out to be a Black Rat Snake, which is a nonvenomous snake that constricts its prey to kill it. We didn't know that at the time so we stayed away.