Cathedral Gorge is a small (600 acres) park on the Nevada border with Utah.
Located some 145 miles North of Las Vegas, they offer visitors access to incredibly intricate stone formations.
As in famous sites like Bryce Canyon, Zion, Arches and Sedona, endless cycles of water freezing and thawing in the cracks of the sandstone gradually shapes and rounds them into infinitely rich patterns.
The ice expands and flakes bits off the stones, which are then carried away by the melting ice water. Nevada’s infrequent but torrential rains then carry enough material to form winding passageways between harder sandstone spires, which you can walk through.
Also exposed in these processes are millennia of ancient sea bottom deposited in distinct layers. Iron, copper, sulfur and other minerals leave characteristic colors in their layers. When combined with the weather-sculpturing described above, the result is sublimely artistic.
In the videos the drones explored the west-facing cliffs. They contain entrances to the winding corridors that penetrate the stone.
Parenthetically, all drone flights were legal, flown at low altitude and launched and landed outside the park boundaries across the highway.
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