This a wonderfully secluded place, twenty miles from any town on a dirt road. It has an agricultural reservoir next to it, so I launched the Inspire to capture the mood. A selfie in a spot to remember!
As one drives the Cottonwood Canyon dirt road North, one gets a broad view of Kodachrome Basin State Park, with Bryce Canyon's cliff wall in the distance;
Kodachrome Basin State Park is a small but rich park, where flying drones is legal. I drove in the main road and launched a Phantom to look down over the line of sandstone spires they call The Grand Parade:
The park is in fact shaped like a basin, with the high white stone cliffs encompassing rich outbursts of volcanic spires and hoodoos of red sandstone.
By the way, this area didn't escape the storm damage. Not far from the entrance to Bryce Canyon, the main highway (route 12) had the shoulder and one whole lane of the roadway collapse down a steep cliff. Road crews are working to fix it, but it shows the vulnerability of these roads cut into steep cliffs. They can handle desert heat for decades, but rain is a mortal enemy.
Off to new areas to the West of Bryce this morning.
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