Purple, pink, yellow, and orange pastels coat brittle walls of clay inside a fantastic labyrinth of white-capped hoodoos. A small weasel tiptoes from a dark crevice and into plain sight, […]
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Tag: Badlands
Cedar Breaks National Monument
An assemblage of orange and white canyons, spires, and columns, contrasted with heavily forested ridgelines form a natural amphitheater that spans nearly three miles wide and ascends depths of more […]
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Visiting Petrified Forest National Park
Tiny brown bits—fragments of massive petrified trees—coat a valley floor parted by the meandering Blue Mesa Trail. Right below you, a pyramid-shaped mound rises. Striped with pale purples, gray, and […]
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The Bisti Badlands in New Mexico
The Bisti Badlands, also known as “De-Na-Zin Wilderness,” is a vast 45,000-acre wilderness area in the high desert of the San Juan Basin in New Mexico. The name De-Na-Zin traces […]
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