Archive for the ‘Paria Canyon’ Tag
Coyote Buttes in Arizona is a spectacular scenic beauty. Local and international hikers alike are drawn to Coyote Buttes’ colorful, swirling masses of stone — complex geologic formations that lie exposed like no place else on earth. The Coyote Buttes are part the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument and Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness — one of the Bureau of Land Management’s National Conservation Lands, which protect areas that are significant to America’s cultural history. Photo by Bob Wick, BLM. Posted on Instagram by the US Department of the Interior, 2/17/15.
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Arguably some of the planet’s most unique and spectacular geologic features are the narrow slot canyons of the Colorado Plateau — and the grand-daddy of them all is Buckskin Gulch in the 112,500 acre, BLM-managed Paria Canyon-Vermillion Cliffs Wilderness/National Monument. Straddling the Utah/Arizona border, this 13 mile long canyon is 400 feet deep and sometimes as narrow as six feet — not just at the bottom, but all the way up to the canyon rims (thus the name “slot”). In places you can’t see the sky when looking up; only the sun’s indirect glow bouncing off the scalloped rock walls & creating an ever-changing colorful tapestry. Logs wedged between the narrow walls 20-30 feet above the stream-bed are a reminder to avoid the area during the summer monsoon, when flash floods combined with no escape routes make the canyon unsafe for hiking. The Wilderness lies approximately 10 miles west of Page, Arizona in Coconino County, Arizona and Kane County, Utah. Posted by the US Department of the Interior on Tumblr, 4/17/14.
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A stunning view of the Wave in the Paria Canyon – Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness – in Airzona. Photo is uncropped and unenhanced.
Photo: Adam Marland. Posted on Tumblr by the US Department of the Interior, 1/3/14.
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