Best Hoodoos
Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness is a 45,000-acre federally designated wilderness in northwestern New Mexico managed by the BLM, known for its alien-looking hoodoos, petrified wood, and Cretaceous dinosaur fossils.
Drumheller Badlands is a dramatic eroded valley in Alberta, Canada, carved by the Red Deer River and home to the Royal Tyrrell Museum, which holds one of the world's largest displays of dinosaur skeletons.
Goblin Valley State Park is a protected landscape in central Utah known for dense concentrations of unusually shaped sandstone hoodoos locally called goblins. The formations developed through erosion of rock associated with the Jurassic Entrada Sandstone, producing isolated pillars and rounded figur...
Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness is a 6,565-acre BLM wilderness in San Juan County, New Mexico, adjacent to the Bisti Badlands and containing significant Late Cretaceous fossil beds including dinosaur and turtle remains.
The Wahweap Badlands are an eroded landscape in southern Utah near the community of Big Water and the Grand Staircase-Escalante region. Layered sedimentary rocks have weathered into ridges, gullies, hoodoos, and pedestal formations often called toadstools, some capped by harder rock that protects th...
Horseshoe Canyon is an eroded badlands landform near Drumheller in southern Alberta, Canada. Its exposed slopes reveal layers of sedimentary rock and provide a visible example of the erosion that shaped the wider Red Deer River badlands, a region known for Late Cretaceous fossils. The canyon has wal...
Badland area in northwestern Nebraska featuring Oligocene-age toadstool-shaped rock formations eroded from volcanic ash and ancient river sediments.
