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We hike the Brook Badlands in New Mexico and get up close to hoodoos, caprock, and weirdly hollow sounding walls that make the landscape feel almost unreal. We also talk through how these formations erode and why being careful with your hands and feet matters as much as the view.
• location and quick orientation near Councilor and Farmington
• why the area feels unique and less marked than nearby badlands
• hollow sounding rock, tall hoodoos, and toadstool shaped formations
• how caprock and softer layers create hoodoos through erosion
• wind, water, ice, and seasonal change as drivers of weathering
• safety notes on fragile terrain, slipping risk, and not climbing formations
• spotting caves, pockets, and collapse zones along the cliffs
• moving to a new ridge to study rock layers and a “city” skyline formation
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We hike New Mexico’s Valley of Dreams to hunt for hoodoos, petrified wood, and the famous Alien Throne hidden beyond a faint, unmarked path. Along the way, we spot the Three Wise Men formation, salt deposits by a rare bit of water, and a strange rock-walled structure on the hike out.
• starting out near the Valley of Dreams and heading toward badlands formations
• spotting petrified wood similar to species found in Arizona
• climbing ridges for panoramic views and locating the Alien Throne
• seeing the Three Wise Men rock pillars
• noticing water in a gully and white salt deposits
• exploring nearby hoodoos that look like mushrooms and animal faces
• hiking back out and finding rock walls that might be a storehouse
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We hike Canyon of the Ancients National Monument from the Dolores visitor center to the Sand Canyon Trail, chasing big views and even bigger history. We connect Sleeping Ute Mountain’s origin story and geology to Ancestral Puebloan ruins like Sunny Alcove, Corncob House, and other cliff dwellings hidden in dry alcoves.
• arriving at the Canyon of the Ancients visitor center and museum basics
• walking the Dominguez Escalante Pueblo trail and spotting room blocks and a central kiva
• linking Sleeping Ute Mountain myth to laccolith geology
• scanning the landscape toward the La Plata Mountains, Mesa Verde, and McPhee Reservoir
• summarizing the Dominguez and Escalante expedition and why their journals matter
• heading to Sand Canyon Trail near Cortez and using spur trails to reach viewpoints
• visiting Saddlehorn Pueblo, Corncob House, Double Cliff House, and Sunny Alcove
• reflecting on how people lived in cliff alcoves and how modern names get assigned
• wrapping the hike with distance and time plus favorite-site picks
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