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Kodachrome Basin, Utah
Nothing like naming a state park after a Kodak product! You know I'll be out there making some work.
Here's some info on the park from wikipedia :
Kodachrome Basin is a small, popular (but very quiet) state park in Utah USA, situated a few miles south of Utah Route 12, about 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Bryce Canyon National Park, and is accessible from the north from Tropic, Utah by a paved road and from the south by Utah Road 400, a dirt road from the Page, Arizona area to Tropic, passable with caution for most vehicles in dry conditions. A longer but paved route to Tropic from the south is also available via state highways 89 and 12.
The park contains eroded, multicoloured rock formations in various shades of red, yellow, pink, white and brown; together with the (usually) deep blue sky and occasional green vegetation. This combination led the National Geographic Society, after exploring the area in 1948, to name it after Kodachrome film, with the consent of the Kodak Corporation.
The one unique feature of the park is the presence of many spires or 'chimneys' of rock, known as sand pipes, which are thought to be solidified sediment that filled ancient springs or geysers, left standing after the softer surrounding Entrada Sandstone rock weathered away. |
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I need to come visit you just so I can photograph the signs leading up to it -- in black and white, of course!
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I need to come visit you just so I can photograph the signs leading up to it -- in black and white, of course!