- From Highway 9, head north on WA 542 (near Deming).
- Turn right on Mosquito Lake Road (at the convenience store).
- Cross the North Fork Nooksack River bridge.
- Turn left on North Fork Road.
- Keep driving when you read the end of the paved road.
- When you reach a clearing and bridge, you have reached Racehorse Creek.
- Turn right and continue up the gravel logging road.
- Watch for the left-side turn, where you can park and walk to the fields.
- The Fossil Fields is a special place.
- Cyrus the Great (Wikipedia)
Cyrus II of Persia (Old Persian: š¤š¢š½š¢š KÅ«ruÅ”; c.ā600ā530 BC), commonly known as Cyrus the Great, was the founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Hailing from Persis, he brought the Achaemenid dynasty to power by defeating the Median Empire and embracing all of the previous civilized states of the ancient Near East, expanding vastly and eventually conquering most of West Asia and much of Central Asia to create what would soon become the largest polity in human history at the time. Widely considered the world’s first superpower, the Achaemenid Empire’s largest territorial extent was achieved under Darius the Great, whose rule stretched from the Balkans (Eastern BulgariaāPaeonia and ThraceāMacedonia) and the rest of Southeast Europe in the west to the Indus Valley in the east.