Kodachrome Basin
As the other visitors to this state park trailed their way through Kodachrome Basin, searching for its famed chimneys of rock, I turned right and up the hill to take this shot. The wide range of colors in rocks, sand, vegetation and sky leaves very little to the imagination as to how the basin got it's name in 1948. Kodachrome Basin State Park is small and very quiet, yet homes the world's only collection of 67 sand pipes, oddly shaped rock pillars that reach up to 170 feet in length. As to their origin, some theorize they have been extruded up through the ground. Others believe they consist of solidified sediment that filled ancient springs or geysers, left standing after the softer surrounding Entrada Sandstone rock washed away.