More from this Mars-like landscape
If you don’t score a permit for The Wave at Coyote Buttes, stick around the BLM office in Kanab, Utah for a chance for a permit for South Coyote Buttes. It takes about 20 miles of driving through sand and tire-piercing slick rock but it is worth the adventure. Part 1 of 2.
Located within Vermilion Cliffs National Monument on the Utah/ Arizona border, this landscape is one of a kind. Sandstone anomalies produced through millions of years of erosion has given this place its look. And its not easy to get to especially on a cold, windy day.
The road was difficult.
Paw Hole is an area at South Coyote Buttes that is part of Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona. Its unusual sandstone rock formations are a photographer’s playland.
I’ve been out to South Coyote Buttes 5 or 6 times but never experienced the blooming desert wildflowers on display. We’ve had quite a bit of rain this spring and it shows, even in the desert. South Coyote Buttes is on the Arizona/Utah border and is about 2o miles from the nearest paved highway.
