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17 miles down Hole in the Rock Road, a 57 mile dirt track traversing Grand Staircase Escalante
southeast from the town of Escalante to the Hole in the Rock at Lake Powell, is the Devil’s Garden.
Devil’s Garden is a 10 acre area of petrified sand dunes and unusually shaped hoodoos, arches,
and monoliths which offer one of the most interesting sights in the Grand Staircase Escalante.
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Devil’s Garden Landscape Grand Staircase 1607
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Grand Staircase Landscape and the Straight Cliffs of the Kaiparowits Plateau
looking northeast from Devil’s Garden off Hole in the Rock Road near Escalante.
Hole in the Rock Road is an occasionally maintained dirt track that penetrates the
Grand Staircase Escalante for 57 miles to the southeast from the town of Escalante.
One of few roads which enters the wilds of the Grand Staircase Escalante, it leads to
the Hole in the Rock, a narrow and very steep rocky crevice in the rim of Glen Canyon
which the Mormon Pioneers used to lower their wagons down the 1200 foot cliff to the
Colorado River. 17 miles down this washboard road is the turnoff to Devil’s Garden.
9 miles further is Dry Fork Wash of Coyote Gulch and Peek-a-Boo Slot Canyon.
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Devil’s Garden Amphitheater Hoodoos 1609
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Just off Hole in the Rock Road is a parking area and picnic bench. A short walk beyond
and you approach the Devil’s Garden Amphitheater hoodoos from behind. The hoodoos
are resistant Gunsight Butte Member Entrada Sandstone standing atop petrified dunes
formed from enormous sand seas (called ergs) of the early to middle Jurassic period.
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Devil’s Garden Amphitheater Hoodoos 1610
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The Devil’s Garden Amphitheater hoodoos from behind...
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Devil’s Garden Amphitheater Hoodoos 1612
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... and the same formation from within the Amphitheater.
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Devil’s Garden Amphitheater Hoodoos 1611
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Detail of the Amphitheater hoodoos from the rear, showing the Entrada Sandstone layers.
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Devil’s Garden Amphitheater Hoodoos 1616
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The hoodoos stand atop petrified sand dunes left behind by the sand seas of the Jurassic.
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Devil’s Garden Amphitheater Hoodoos 1618
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Mechanical and chemical weathering caused by rain and wind and frost wedging caused by ice erode the sandstone into complex shapes called hoodoos.
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Devil’s Garden Amphitheater Hoodoos 1619
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Some of these hoodoos form whimsical shapes, such as goblins, mushrooms, trolls, Jay Leno and Ronald Reagan... let your imagination run wild in Devil’s Garden.
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Devil’s Garden Amphitheater Hoodoos 1620
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Entrada Sandstone hoodoos atop petrified dunes in the Devil’s Garden Amohitheater.
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Devil’s Garden Amphitheater Hoodoos 7010
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Devil’s Garden Devil’s Heads 1622
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At the end of the Amphitheater are two ‘goblin’ heads.
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The goblin on the left has well-defined nostrils.
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Devil’s Garden Devil’s Head 1621
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The rear of the ‘two-faced goblin’ and his dune pedestal.
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Devil’s Garden Devil’s Head 1624
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A low angle shot of the goblin on the left.
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Devil’s Garden Devil’s Heads 1625
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Two of the Devil’s Heads or ‘goblins’ at the end of the Devil’s Garden Amphitheater.
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Devil’s Garden Devil’s Head 7027
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Goblin head on the left, the Straight Cliffs in the background.
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Devil’s Garden Devil’s Head 7053
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This angle shows the goblin and the petrified dunes.
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Devil’s Garden Devil’s Heads 7062
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The Devil’s Heads or ‘goblins’ atop petrified sand dunes.
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Devil’s Garden Amphitheater Hoodoos 7078
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The Devil’s Garden Amphitheater hoodoos.
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Devil’s Garden Devils Heads Hoodoos 7050
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The Devil’s Heads or ‘goblins’ and Devil’s Garden Amphitheater hoodoos atop petrified dunes.
The images on this page were taken on two separate visits to Devil’s Garden.
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Devil’s Garden Metate Arch 1626
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Metate Arch is the most well-known feature of Devil’s Garden.
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Devil’s Garden Metate Arch 1630
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Metate Arch forms a window on the distant Straight Cliffs.
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Devil’s Garden Metate Arch 1628
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Looking up at the delicate span of Metate Arch.
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Devil’s Garden Metate Arch 1632
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Metate Arch stands at the end of the Mushroom formation.
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Devil’s Garden Metate Arch 1634
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These images were taken at mid-morning in September.
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Devil’s Garden Metate Arch 7020
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This shot of Metate Arch was taken near noon in August.
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Devil’s Garden Metate Arch 1638
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Metate Arch and the Straight Cliffs beyond.
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Devil’s Garden Metate Arch 7016
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Metate Arch in Devil’s Garden, with the Amphitheater Goblin Head on the far right.
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Devil’s Garden Metate Arch Hoodoos 7040
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A view of Metate Arch, the Devil’s Heads or ‘goblins’, and the Amphitheater Hoodoos
from atop the Mushroom formation to the left of Metate Arch, taken around noon in August.
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Devil’s Garden Mano Arch 1640
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The back side of Mano Arch, beyond the Devil’s Garden Mushrooms and Metate Arch.
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Devil’s Garden Mano Arch 1641
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The front side of Mano Arch. Mano Arch is more of a natural bridge,
with a straight horizontal lintel atop angled vertical abutments. It stands
100 feet from Metate Arch and the Mushroom formation in Devil’s Garden.
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Devil’s Garden Mushroom Hoodoos 7043
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The Mushroom formation, taken from atop Metate Arch at noon in late August.
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Devil’s Garden Mushroom Hoodoos 7036
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The Mushroom formation and the Amphitheater Hoodoos from Devil’s Garden Dry Wash.
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Devil’s Garden Dry Wash Mushrooms 1657
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Inedible Mushrooms from the Devil’s Garden Dry Wash.
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Devil’s Garden Mushroom Hoodoos 1635
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The Mushroom formation from the inside.
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Devil’s Garden Mushroom Hoodoos 7023
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The Devil’s Garden Mushrooms framing a Gnarled Juniper across the Dry Wash.
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Devil’s Garden Gnarled Juniper 7028
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A Gnarled Juniper across Devil’s Garden Dry Wash.
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Devil’s Garden Tree Skeleton 7071
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Tree Skeletons on the bank of the Devil’s Garden Dry Wash.
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Tree Skeletons in the Devil’s Garden Dry Wash.
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Devil’s Garden Dry Gulch 7074
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Devil’s Garden Dry Wash, with the Straight Cliffs in the distance beyond.
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Devil’s Garden Dry Gulch 7076
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Another angle of the Devil’s Garden Dry Wash, with the Straight Cliffs in the distance.
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Devil’s Garden Dry Wash 1644
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Devil’s Garden Dry Wash.
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Hoodoos and shelves in Devil’s Garden Dry Wash.
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Devil’s Garden Dry Wash Hoodoo 1643
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Balanced Rock Hoodoo in Devil’s Garden Dry Wash.
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Petrified Sand Dunes form hoodoos, shelves and walls in Devil’s Garden Dry Wash.
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A dome and hoodoo formed from petrified sand dunes in Devil’s Garden Dry Wash.
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Devil’s Garden Dry Wash 1651
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Petrified sand dunes in Devil’s Garden Dry Wash.
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Devil’s Garden Dry Wash Swirls 1656
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Sandstone Swirls in the petrified sand dunes of Devil’s Garden Dry Wash.
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Devil’s Garden Amphitheater Hoodoos 7054
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Devil’s Garden Amphitheater Hoodoos 1660
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Devil’s Garden Amphitheater Hoodoos.
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Intricately shaped Amphitheater Hoodoos atop petrified sand dunes in Devil’s Garden.
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Devil’s Garden Amphitheater Hoodoos 7045
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Devil’s Garden Amphitheater Hoodoos 7055
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Amphitheater Hoodoos from atop the Metate Arch Mushroom formation.
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Devil’s Garden Amphitheater Hoodoos from behind the side of the Amphitheater.
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Devil’s Garden Hoodoo 7058
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Devil’s Garden Hoodoo from atop the Mushroom formation.
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Devil’s Garden Hoodoos 1623
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Detail of a Hoodoo atop a petrified sand dune pedestal.
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Devil’s Garden Hoodoos 1658
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Devil’s Garden Hoodoos at the end of the Dry Wash.
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Devil’s Garden Hoodoos 1659
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The Devil’s Garden Hoodoos can exhibit fanciful shapes...
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... such as Ronald Reagan (lower left) and Jay Leno.
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Devil’s Garden Landscape 1642
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Hoodoos in the Devil’s Garden and the Straight Cliffs in the distance.
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Devil’s Garden Landscape 1663
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Amphitheater Hoodoos in the Devil’s Garden and the Straight Cliffs in the distance.
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