Bisti Badlands of New Mexico

The 38,305-acre Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness (the "Bisti Badlands") is described in a Bureau of Land Management brochure as "a remote desolate area of steeply eroded badlands which offers some of the most unusual scenery found in the Four Corners region. Time and natural elements have etched a fantasy world of strange rock formations and fossils...

...the badlands contain interbedded sandstone, shale, mudstone, coal, and silt. The weathering of the sandstone forms the many spires and hoodoos (sculpted rock) found throughout the area."

For a photographer, the shorter, and more emphatic description is... AWESOME! UNEARTHLY!