Kodachrome Basin State Park
The park is criss-crossed with paved roads which lead to the trailheads of hiking trails. Most of the hikes are fairly short, under a mile, but involve some climbing.
The Angel’s Palace trail and overlook offers a very high vantage point from which one can look out over the basin.
One of the remarkable historical facts about the park is that it was in a past epoch riddled with geysers as the modern Yellowstone Park is. As time went by, the volcanic hot spot that caused the geysers cooled or perhaps moved as the tectonic plate slowly moved.
When that happened, the dried-out geyser crevices filled with hard debris which was compacted over time. Then, in succeeding epochs, the soft sandstone surrounding these plugged geyser channels eroded away, so today we see the exposed plugs as spires and pinnacles.
It is hard for humans to comprehend such long spans of geologic time, but geologists can describe the succession of processes with confidence. For us, Kodachrome Basin is a delight and a photographic feast.
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