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Saguaro Cactus #6723 The desert scenery of Saguaro National Park. |
Saguaro Cactus #6733 The Saguaro Cactus can grow to fifty feet tall and live for over one-hundred years. |
Saguaro Desert #6768 Saguaro National Park is named for the many Saguaro Cacti that grow in its desert landscape. |
Coyote Buttes #12 The area known as Coyote Buttes is under the control of the Bureau of Land Management, which issues permits to allow a very limited number of hikers per day. |
Coyote Buttes #230 There are several areas worth visiting in the Coyote Buttes area, including Buckskin Gulch - perhaps the longest slot canyon in the world - and "The Wave", a spectacularly scenic portion of the buttes. |
Coyote Buttes #244 Some sections of Coyote Buttes are so popular and so tightly controled by the BLM that reservations must be made months in advance. However, if you haven't planned that far in advance, there is a daily lottery for a limited number of permits that are valid for the following day. |
Coyote Buttes #250 Throughout Coyote Buttes there aren't really specific hiking trails. And this is as it should be because the area is so beautiful, it's best to just wander and explore and discover all of the nooks and crannies of colorful, textured, and wonderfully shaped sandstone. |
Antelope Canyon #2 Antelope Canyon is a beautiful slot canyon located on Navajo land just outside of Page, Arizona. Flash floods have sculpted the canyon walls into smoothly curved undulating shapes that together with their color produce stunning scenes. |
Antelope Canyon #9 The sunlight bounces back and forth off of the close-spaced red sandstone walls of Antelope Canyon to that by the time the light reaches the bottom, it has taken on a deep reddish-orange color. If you're a photographer, bring your tripod. Exposure times for these photographs are frequently 30 seconds and longer. |
Antelope Canyon #8 Tours of Antelope Canyon are given daily by Navajo guides. |
Antelope Canyon #25 Just outside of Page, Arizona on Navajo land is this beautiful slot canyon known as Antelope Canyon. |
Coyote Buttes #3 Coyote Buttes is a remote but beautiful area that spans the border between Utah and Arizona. It's in a section of the Paria River Canyon and the Vermillion Cliffs Recreation area that is full of amazing sandstone scenery. |
Coyote Buttes #17 Coyote Buttes is full of beautifully colored, striated and textured sandstone. |
Coyote Buttes #4 In the early spring, the arid region known as Coyote Buttes comes alive with beautiful desert wildflowers. |
Artists Palette There is an area inside of Coyote Buttes known as "The Wave". This name comes from the wavy shapes of sandstone walls that look almost like breaking surf on an ocean beach. Technically, The Wave is in North Coyote Buttes, which falls inside of the Utah border. However, the buttes spreads across the borders into both Utah and Arizona. |
Streaks in Stone There are no trails in this part of Coyote Buttes. But if you took a beeline from the nearest parking area directly to The Wave, you'd hike about 3 to 3.5 miles one way. If you hiked to The Wave in this fashion you'd certainly see a lot of amazing scenery. But you'd miss a lot, too. This is an area that deserves being explored. |
Swirling Stone Coyote Buttes is a bit like a fascinating maze of sandstone hills, mounds, and fins giving this area some of the most fascinating desert scenery found anywhere. |
Waves of Stone The Wave is both a photographer's dream and nightmare. The range of textures, colors, and shapes of sandstone here is phenomenal. Every camera angle seems worthy of a photograph. Getting correct photographic white balance to produce a photo that accurately displays the reality of The Wave is a challenge. Just take a look at the many photographs posted on websites and you'll see a range of colors spanning the gamut from bland to gawdy, from orange to red to yellow - and these for the same locations! |
The Wave #259 Using a GPS to navigate within the desert landscape that is Coyote Buttes is helpful in getting near The Wave. But it's often of little value in actually finding it. It is entirely possible to be within a hundred meters of The Wave and not know how to actually get to it. But once you've found it, it's straightforward to find it again. The difficulty is finding yourself on the wrong level of the surrounding rocks. You can hit deadend dropoffs while walking on a fin, or run into deadend walls while hiking between them. |
Saguaro Sunset The majestic Saguaro Cactus in profile during a sunset at Saguaro National Park in Arizona. |
Rock Face Details of the colors and textures of a rock face in South Coyote Buttes - just one small view of amazing Arizona scenery. |
Saguaro Desert #6793 Saguaro National Park is named for the many Saguaro Cacti that grow in its desert landscape. |
Grand Canyon #117 This is a view looking toward the Yavapai overlook point in the Grand Canyon. |
Grand Canyon #195 This is a view of the Grand Canyon's south rim in winter. Even though the South Rim is considerably lower in altitude than the North Rim, winter still routinely brings snow and ice to the South Rim. Crampons are often required for safe hiking into the canyon in winter. |
Grand Canyon #7 This is a morning view from the south rim of the Grand Canyon. |
Grand Canyon #23 A winter view of the Grand Canyon in Arizona. |
Grand Canyon #32 This is the surreal landscape of the Grand Canyon. |
Grand Canyon #38 The Grand Canyon has some of the oldest exposed rock found anywhere in the world at nearly 2 billion years old. |
Grand Canyon #75 The Plateau Trail in the Grand Canyon is visible in the left center portion of this photo. |
Grand Canyon #100 The Grand Canyon offers excellent and challenging hiking opportunities. |
Grand Canyon #105 Beautiful views of the Grand Canyon are even available to people that don't wish to hike the steep trails down into the canyon. |
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