Durango Loop Temporary Trail

While the Durango Temporary Loop Trail offers year-round scenic views of Mojave Desert scrub habitat and the Las Vegas Range, wildflower blooms in spring and summer are a sight to see. Join our citizen science project by photographing these plants to document changes in native and invasive plants through months and seasons.
Additionally, this Chronolog station documents geohazards, which are active geologic processes that cause land collapses due to erosion.  Geohazards occur rapidly without warning, which increases the need for the importance of long-term monitoring of these high risk areas. Time lapse photo series are one of the most effective educational tools to show this kind of change over time. Citizen science is the voluntary involvement of the public in scientific research. The data you collect at this station as a citizen scientist can assist professional scientists and resource managers better understand the park’s natural resources.