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Expanses of sandstone from Heads of the Rocks, sunset. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Johnson Canyon at dusk. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Wahweap Wash. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Canyon and reflections, Calf Creek. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Lower Calf Creek waterfall. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA (Panoramic color)

Paria Canyon cliffs reflected in Paria River. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Dried mud, tumbleweed, and cliff. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Group of silt stone caprocks called Towers of Silence. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Wahweap Hoodoos and cliffs. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Close up of silt stone with erosion patterns and rock. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Toadstool hoodoo, Rimrocks. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Multicolored badlands and cliffs, Burr Trail. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Chinle formation badlands, Old Paria. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Castle Rock from Yellow Rock, dusk. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Moon rising over colorful rocks of the Cockscomb. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Yellow Rock and Cockscomb, sunset. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Candyland Hill. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Dakota sandstone Grosvenor Arch. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Sunset Arch, dawn. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Metate Arch, twilight. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Swirls and hoodoos, Devils Garden. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Desert varnish striations and pine trees, Long Canyon. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Side canyon of Long Canyon sunlit with trees. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Sheer side canyon with trees, Long Canyon. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Willis Creek narrows framing pine trees. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Zebra Slot Canyon with sandstone striations and encrusted moqui marbles. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Large arches in Peek-a-Boo slot canyon. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Sculpted walls and arch, Peek-a-Boo slot canyon, Dry Fork Coyote Gulch. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Walls textured with knobs, Spooky slot canyon. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Windows of the Paria River and moon. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Cliff with Hundred Handprints panel. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Badlands and caprock sandstone spires. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Rock and capped sandstone spire. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Rimrock Hoodoos. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Rock-capped sandstone towers. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Colorful badlands, Old Paria. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Shrubs and butte, Old Pahrea. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Old Pahrea cemetery. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Colorful badlands of Chinle formation, Old Paria. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Chile formation badlands at dusk. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Petrified sand dunes bordering Paria Canyon at dusk. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Paria River and cliffs in Paria Canyon. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Paria River. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Paria River and cliffs. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Cliffs and sunset and Paria River. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Paria Riverbanks, Old Pahrea. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Paria River Windows at dawn. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Paria River and Windows at dawn. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Paria River braids in Paria Canyon. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Paria River in Paria Canyon. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Paria River Windows at night. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Wahweap Wash bed. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Shrubs in Wahweap Wash. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Desert shrubs in Wahweap Wash. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Close-up of tumbleweed, and cracked dried mud. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Cracked mud and cliff with holes. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Dried mud. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Cracked mud and holes in cliff. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Cracked mud, Wahweap Wash. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Wash with cracked mud, tumbleweed, and cliff. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Rabbitbrush and cliffs bordering Wahweap Wash. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Tall caprock and cliffs bordering Wahweap Wash. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Short caprocks overlooking Wahweap Wash. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Rabbitbrush in bloom and caprock. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Cliff amphitheater with caprocks, Wahweap Wash. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Rounded rocks, Wahweap Wash. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Cliffs and Wahweap Wash. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Caprocks and cliffs. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Caprocks, Rocks, and cliffs. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Silt stone Caprock and cliffs, Wahweap Wash. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Siltstone spire, Wahweap Wash. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Caprock and cliffs, Wahweap Wash. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Silt stone hill. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Wahweap Hoodoos and silt stone badlands. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Wahweap Hoodoos. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Eroded silt stone. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Wahweap Hoodoos called Towers of Silence. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Rocks and siltstone. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Short caprock formations. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Close up of stones and gullies. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Slender caprock spires and cliff. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Close up of stones and silt stone. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Close up of stone and silt rock. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Bullrush Hollow at sunset. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Blooms and sandstone walls, Johnson Canyon. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Willis Creek carving into sandstone. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Willis Creek narrows framing pine trees. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Willis Creek flowing in narrows. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

dark Willis Creek narrows. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Slot canyon with Willis Creek flowing. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Willis Creek slot canyon. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Autum foliage and stream, Cottonwood Canyon. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Cockscomb Fault and Mollies Nipple. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Cockscomb Fault along Cottonwood Canyon Road. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Cockscomb Fault and Yellow Rock. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Cottonwood trees and cliff in autumn. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Sandstone swirls, Yellow Rock. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Swirls and cross-bedding, Yellow Rock. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Expanse of cross-bedded sandstone leading to summit of Yellow Rock. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Looking down cross-bedded sandstone from Yellow Rock. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Moonrise over Cockscomb from Yellow Rock. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Shrubs and cross-bedded yellow sandstone. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Shrubs and swirling yellow sandstone. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Moon and Cockscomb Anticline. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Yellow Rock Valley, dusk. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Yellow Rock cross-bedding and Castle Rock. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Yellow Rock slickrock and valley. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Yellow Rock cross-bedding by moonlight. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Yellow Rock cross-bedding at night. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Grosvenor Arch at dawn. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Sagebrush and Grosvenor Arch at dawn. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

152-foot high Grosvenor Arch, dawn. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Grosvenor Arch and valley. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Grosvenor Arch framing peak. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Double span of Grosvenor Arch from the back. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

90-foot span of Grosvenor Arch. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Grosvenor Arch, early morning. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Colorful badlands along Cottonwood Canyon Road. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Grasses on plateau and Straight Cliffs. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Hole in the Rock unpaved road. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Hole-in-the-Rock Road. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Sandstone spires. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Entrance to Zebra Slot Canyon. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Zebra Slot Canyon. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Narrow striated walls, Zebra Slot Canyon. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Colorfully striated walls, Zebra Slot Canyon. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Sandstone with colorful striations, Zebra Slot Canyon. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Walls streaked with pink and white stripes, Zebra Slot Canyon. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Striped walls, Zebra Slot Canyon. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Woman squeezing in Zebra Slot Canyon. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Hoodoos at sunset, Devils Garden. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Hoodoos, Devils Garden. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Mononliths and hills, Devils Garden. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Devils Garden at night. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Metate Arch at night. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Hoodoos at night, Devils Garden. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Coyote Gulch dry creek bed. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Peek-a-Boo slot canyon entrance with carved steps. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Series of arches in Peek-a-Boo slot canyon. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Small arch, Peek-a-Boo slot canyon. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Sculpted walls, Peek-a-Boo slot canyon. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Man inside Peek-a-Boo slot canyon. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Sculpted sandstone walls and small arch, Peek-a-Boo slot canyon. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Chamber, Peek-a-Boo slot canyon, Dry Fork Coyote Gulch. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Double arches and sky, Peek-a-Boo slot canyon. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Canyon floor and walls, Spooky slot canyon. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Narrow passage, Spooky slot canyon, Dry Fork Coyote Gulch. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Textured walls, Spooky slot canyon, Dry Fork Coyote Gulch. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Dark and narrow passage, Spooky slot canyon. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Sunset Arch with setting moon. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Span of Sunset Arch framing Navajo Mountain, sunrise. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Slender and jagged Sunset Arch and the Straight Cliffs, sunrise. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Entrada Sandstone Sunset Arch at sunrise. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Sunstar through Sunset Arch. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Graceful span of Sunset Arch, early morning. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Rocks and slabs on the south slopes of Fortymile Ridge. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Sandstone slickrock, Straight Cliffs, and Navajo Mountain. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Slickrock with arches and Straight Cliffs, Fortymile Ridge. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Forty Mile Water Tank. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Rabbitbrush and Straight Cliffs, early morning. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Rabbitbrush in bloom and Straight Cliffs. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Dance Hall Rock and cloud. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Near Heads of the Rocks at dawn. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Slickrock at dawn near Heads of the Rocks. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Cliff with Hundred Handprints at night. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Hundred Handprints petroglyphs panel. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Sandstone domes, twilight. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Slickrock domes. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Sandstone canyons and domes from Hogback Ridge. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Canyons from Hogback Ridge. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Slickrock and canyons from Hogback Ridge. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Slickrock domes along Scenic Byway 12. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA (Panoramic color)

Aerial view of Hogback Ridge. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Aerial view of Scenic Byway 12. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Aerial view of SB 12 on Hogback Ridge. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Trees and Canyon walls, Calf Creek. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Calf Creek Canyon and reflections. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Lower Calf Creek Falls. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Lower Calf Creek Falls and pool. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Lower Calf Creek Falls bottom tier. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Aerial view of multicolored cliffs. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Aerial view of cliffs. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Aerial view of multicolored badlands and cliffs. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Wingate Sandstone cliffs, Burr Trail. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Bentonitic mudstone and sandstone cliffs, Burr Trail. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Bentonitic badlands and cliffs, Burr Trail. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Tall multicolored cliffs, Burr Trail, Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Boulder and striated Sandstone, Burr Trail, Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Crossbedded Navajo Sandstone, Burr Trail. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Crossbedded Petrified Dunes, Burr Trail. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Aerial view of Long Canyon. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Aerial view of red cliffs and Long Canyon. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Burr Trail winding into Long Canyon. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Blooms and wash in Long Canyon. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Long Canyon. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Alcove, Long Canyon. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Trees and cliff with desert varnish in Kayenta Sandstone, Long Canyon. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Trees in fall foliage and cliffs with desert varnish, Long Canyon. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Holes in Kayenta Sandstone cliffs, Long Canyon. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Cliff with holes, Long Canyon. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Tree silhouette and canyon wall, Long Canyon. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Close-up of tree in autumn foliage and rock wall, Long Canyon. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Tree and sunlit canyon wall, Long Canyon. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Sunlit trees in narrow canyon, Long Canyon. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Trees in side canyon, Long Canyon. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Trees in narrow side canyon of Long Canyon. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Trees in slot canyon, Long Canyon. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Trees in slot canyon, Long Canyon. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

Narrow side canyon of Long Canyon sunlit with trees. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA ( color)

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