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The Lighthouse hoodoo in Palo Duro

Fig. 1The Lighthouse hoodoo in Palo Duro

Photo: Sefor4 · CC BY-SA 3.0

Landform

The second-largest canyon in the United States. Permian redbeds and a lighthouse hoodoo, cut into the High Plains by the Prairie Dog Town Fork of the Red River.

Field note

You do not see Palo Duro until you are on it — the High Plains hide the cut. The Lighthouse is a 300-foot hoodoo. Evening turns the redbeds the color of brick and rust.

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Prints from Palo Duro Canyon


Instant paper, this copy only. Write on the white — a line the walk still owes you.

The prints

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