Weekend Photos: The Devil's Garden

The Devil's Garden is probably the most accessible bit of cool geology in the Grand Staircase-Escalante. There is a picnic area and outhouse, a quarter mile off the Hole-in-the-Rock road, and the bizarre sandstone formations start right by the parking lot. In a fairly thorough ramble of it all I covered about a mile, though I could have hung around playing among the towers and hollows much longer.

Morning seemed like the best time to photograph the hoodoos, and I went twice for first-thing-in-the-morning photography before moving on to other things. The photos are all mixed up together.

To prove the point about being right by the parking, here's the sign and the first set of hoodoos.

Hoodoos like these are formed via a lot of erosion--but in places where there's a hard layer atop softer ones. That's all this English major is going to say about the geology, but I love the results.

I think most of these formations have names, but I didn't pay much attention to that.

The little kid in me needs to explore every passage, nook, and cranny.

The Three Stooges?

Even a delicate little arch!

Here and there dead junipers have left fascinating skeletons.

Dragon

Stay tuned for some bigger arches and a truly inaccessible ruin next week!

 

Rebecca M. Douglass, 2025
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