If you’re looking for a John Day Fossil Beds map, you’ve come to the right place; currently I’ve collected 13 free John Day Fossil Beds National Monument maps to view and download. (PDF files and external links will open in a new window.) Here you’ll find maps of each of the three units of the park, as well as specific trail maps and an eastern Oregon regional map. You can also browse the best-selling Oregon maps and guidebooks on Amazon.

John Day Fossil Beds map from the park brochure

This is the official John Day Fossil Beds map from the park brochure, showing the locations of each of the three units of the park. Click the image to view a full size JPG (250 kb) or download the PDF (100 kb).

Here’s a Sheep Rock Unit map, focusing on the main part of the park featuring the Thomas Condon Paleontology and Visitor Center. Click the image to view a full size JPG (400 kb) or download the PDF (700 kb).

This Painted Hills Unit map shows this area of the park west of the main Sheep Rock area that features some trails and a picnic area. Click the image to view a full size JPG (150 kb) or download the PDF (150 kb).

This is a Clarno Unit map, showing the northwesternmost unit of John Day Fossil Beds that contains the Palisades and a few geologic trails. Click the image to view a full size JPG (170 kb) or download the PDF (200 kb).

John Day Fossil Beds trail maps

Here’s a Paleontology Center and Cant Ranch trail map (170 kb), showing the hiking trails in the Sheep Rock Unit of the park, where most visitors stop first to check out the visitor center.

The Blue Basin trail map (280 kb) shows the Blue Basin Overlook trail and Island in Time trail, just north of the main visitor center area in the Sheep Rock unit. Here you can do a one-way or loop hike.

The Foree trail map (200 kb) focuses on the two trails — Story in Stone and Flood of Fire — located a bit north of the visitor center and Blue Basin area (but still located in the Sheep Rock Unit).

This Painted Hills Unit trail map (400 kb) shows several short trails and includes text descriptions of what you’ll find at each of them. Most of these are short walks that will take less than 30 minutes.

The Clarno Unit trail map (500 kb) includes routes and descriptions for the Arch Trail, Geologic Time Trail, and the Trail of Fossils in the northwest part of the park off Route 218.

Various John Day Fossil Beds maps

The John Day Fossil Beds regional map (1.1 mb) shows the nearby campgrounds, services, and towns surrounding the park on nearby eastern Oregon highways in this VERY detailed map.

This John Day Fossil Beds geologic map (2.4 mb) is really three maps in one, showing the rock layers and labeling each one in each of the three units of the park: Sheep Rock, Painted Hills, and Clarno.

Here’s a vegetation map of John Day Fossil Beds (1.4 mb), showing the types of forest, woodlands, shrublands, and other types of ground cover communities throughout the three units of the park.

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