Rocks in Utah

This site is home to ancient petroglyphs and pictographs dating back to 6,000 B.C.

The damming of the Colorado River buried an iconic geologic formation before record-breaking drought brought it back.

This Moab institution functions as both a rock store and a small natural history museum.

These tall, red sandstone pinnacles outside Moab are often forgotten amid their more famous neighbors.

A spectacular overlook of the Little Grand Canyon of the San Rafael River, a deep sandstone gorge streaked with orange, red and white in a remote, uncrowded part of Utah.

The unusual patterns in this rock formation result from two distinct modes of weathering.

This roadside stop between Goblin Valley is the perfect location to view some of the region's natural wonders.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

Local lore holds that Butch Cassidy took an escape route through Red Canyon's sandstone hoodoos after an attempted murder.

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

This lava formation earned its whimsical name from the log-like formation of it stones.