Hoodoos

 Hoodoos

Bryce Canyon has them, hundreds of rock pinnacles that glow like licks of fire in the sunshine. Paiutes thought of the hoodoos as the Legend People whom Coyote had turned to stone. Coyote didn’t need to cast a spell on us. The hoodoos did that as we beheld their other-worldly stone presence. We took two hikes in the park: on the rim and down into the canyon. The eye-popping rim hike spread before us hundreds of the orange-glowing spires. The loop hike down into the canyon put us right there with them. There was even a rock formation, not a hoodoo, that looked like a queen on a throne surveying her hoodoo subjects. The stone formations of Bryce are some of the most memorable geologic features that we’ve encountered in our national parks.