At About 6,000 feet in elevation, Zion’s Kolob Terrace section gets quite a bit more snow and I was there to capture it. Also look for a drive through video from the same area tomorrow.
Higher Elevations, More Snow
Category: Desert Southwest
Cold Enough To Finally Snow
It’s been a warm winter in Southern Utah with decent rains but no snow. Until this past week where it was just cold enough in and around Zion National Park to get a few inches. Another future post will show heavier snows at Zion’s Kolob Terrace.
Best Images From 2025
I didn’t get out as much as previous years but did capture some good ones, especially from autumn.
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Coyote Buttes- A Whimsical Product Of The Forces Of Nature.
Coyote Buttes, on the Arizona/Utah border, is a landscape that defies description. Freud would have trouble developing a diagnosis for this patient.
One look at it will put a smile on your face along with a frown. It’s situated at The Vermillion Cliffs National Monument and is well protected. At North Coyote Buttes, a trip to The Wave is only accessible for 20 daily fortunates who were victorious in the dreaded lottery put on by The Bureau of Land Management.
It’s a riot of abstractness, details, hues, textures, patterns and dizzying sandstone shapes. The Navajo Sandstone calcified dunes evolved into its current look due to erosion from winds and rains.
This is a repost from 2014..
At South Coyote Buttes, the unusual is the usual at this landscape. Grotesque shapes of rock cast by millions of years of weathering have produced a carnival of oddities that Barnum & Bailey would be proud of. I half expected a woman with a beard to come walking around the corner.
It seems as if someone put one of those curvy carnival mirrors out there to give Coyote Buttes it’s distorted look. But it is real. I think.
It’s highly believable that it took millions of years for the gods to create Coyote Buttes.
You just don’t put this together in a week.
Michael Andrew Just
Dawn2Dawn Photography
Foggy, Snowy Bryce Canyon NP
A quick trip to Bryce Canyon to capture snow-covered hoodoos ended in disappointment as the foggy conditions obscured the canyon of hoodoos below but left 4-5 inched of fresh snow above the rim. I guess it’s best to visit just after the storm has passed which I normally do. See past image.
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Fall Colors and Sandstone Rock Formations Collide at Zion Country
An aerial view of Cottonwood trees nearing peak color against the red rock formations just outside Zion National Park, Utah.
Drive Through Autumn
The leaves on the Aspens locally are leaving the area but it was a good autumn.
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Still Images Of Still Objects
From last week’s lingering fall colors near Zion National Park, Utah. Fall colors are starting to hit the lower elevations of Zion this week and it’s a totally different look. Stay tuned.
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Fall Colors Without Leaves?
I caught the remnants of the fall colors at Kaibab National Forest in Northern Arizona. The Aspens were pretty much leafless as a recent storm with lots of rain and high winds caused this.
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Snow And Fall Colors
You get two seasons for the price of one. Dixie National Forest near Cedar City, Utah, received a few inches of fresh snow the other day on top of the autumn colors already present. The elevation at this spot is around 8 to 9,000 feet and the temperature was 39 degrees F at midday.