Dave and Jan headed east past Bryce Canyon National Park to visit Mossy Cave and Kodachrome Basin State Park. Arriving at Mossy Cave they found the parking lot blocked off because of road work in the area. But there was plenty to see at Kodachrome Basin State Park, so a side trip to Mossy Cave would have kept them from exploring the park as fully as they wished.

Kodachrome Basin is filled with fascinating and colorful geological features.  The red rock walls and cliffs are already beautiful in and of themselves.

And park facilities are well-planned and well-maintained – including restroom facilities (with showers) and picnic and camp grounds.

The half-mile Kodachrome Nature Trail provides excellent views of some of the spectacular scenery in the park.

The park’s most famous geological features, seventy towering sandstone chimneys called Hoodoos, are red and multi-colored rock columns which rise from six to one hundred seventy feet in height above the valley floor or from the sandstone cliffs.

A hike up Angel’s Palace Trail provided expansive views of the basin below, as well as additional Hoodoos.

 A park poster stated that Kodachrome Basin State Park is one of the world’s best locations for spectacular views of the night skies – good reason for a future camping stay at the park with its views of not only fascinating geology on earth but the amazing universe above our planet.  As the psalmist put it (Psalm 8:1):  “O LORD, our Lord,  How majestic is Your name in all the earth, Who have displayed Your splendor above the heavens!”