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Kodachrome Basin State Park, Utah

October 21st, 2009
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I took a side trip to Kodachrome Basin State Park this afternoon.  What a cool place.

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The park is famous for it’s columns of cemented sandstone that stretch in come cases hundreds of feet into the air.  Geologists believe that they were once hot springs like those in Yellowstone and that they cooled off and filled with sediment.  Then the earth around them eroded, leaving them standing there.  They call them ‘sand pipes’ and the park has over sixty of them.

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