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<\/a><\/p>\nThe park is famous for it\u2019s columns of cemented sandstone that stretch in come cases hundreds of feet into the air.\u00a0 Geologists believe that they were once hot springs like those in Yellowstone and that they cooled off and filled with sediment.\u00a0 Then the earth around them eroded, leaving them standing there.\u00a0 They call them \u2018sand pipes\u2019 and the park has over sixty of them.<\/p>\n
Besides the sand pipes there are other red formations that jut from the desert floor.\u00a0 The combination makes for some very interesting forms.<\/p>\n There are some great hiking trails in the park.\u00a0 I took time for the Sentinel and Shakespeare Arch trail.\u00a0 The trail was refreshingly primitive, not the kind of heavily manicured ones you see in the national parks.\u00a0 There were a couple of places where you had to watch your step and you also had to pay attention or you might have gotten lost.\u00a0 Like I said, it was very refreshing.\u00a0 You had a feeling of being closer to the countryside.<\/p>\n They have a super nice campground.\u00a0 It\u2019s extremely well cared for and situated among some juniper trees with a few cotton woods thrown in for good measure. It\u2019s very pleasant.\u00a0 And I\u2019m told they have hot showers \u2013 and they\u2019re free.<\/p>\n As for photography, the basin faces south with high walls to the east and west.\u00a0 So it\u2019s neither a good sunrise or sunset location.\u00a0 But in the fall the sun was low enough in the early afternoon to cast some interesting and satisfying shadows on the rocks.<\/p>\n The road to the park leads south out of Cannonville (about 20 miles east of Bryce Canyon on Utah 12).<\/p>\n Actually, Cannonville isn\u2019t quite as remote as this picture makes it look.\u00a0 It actually has buildings besides that shack out there in the meadow.<\/p>\n There are a number of places along the road that remind me why I like Utah so much.<\/p>\n And this one\u2019s for my kid.<\/p>\n The whole experience was very satisfying and I\u2019ll definitely return.\u00a0 I\u2019d love to camp there and explore all the trails.\u00a0 And I\u2019d recommend it to anyone who was in the area.<\/p>\n To see more of my photographs click here.<\/a><\/p>\n Join me on an upcoming workshop.<\/a><\/p>\n Become a fan on Facebook and follow along.<\/a><\/p>\n (807)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I took a side trip to Kodachrome Basin State Park this afternoon.\u00a0 What a cool place. The park is famous for it\u2019s columns of cemented sandstone that stretch in come cases hundreds of feet into the air.\u00a0 Geologists believe that they were once hot springs like those in Yellowstone and that they cooled off and … Continue reading “Kodachrome Basin State Park, Utah”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[13,21,20,93],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-photography","tag-southwest","tag-utah","tag-workshop"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Nl7-ar","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4589,"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions\/4589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n