Jurassic Cliffs Ranch Photo Gallery
An unstable-looking hoodoo with a big crack along the base.
The view from the horse pasture.
Sunset lighting up the cliffs in Cathedral Canyon.
Mushroom rocks, where a hard rock protects softer rock below from erosion.
Sunrise over the West Pinnacle. The inspiration for our ranch flag.
Lots of room for horses to roam but not so much grass...
Sunset over Hosta Butte, on the other side of the Continental Divide
Purple wildflowers.
Brilliant red flowers on the native cactus.
Jurassic-era leaf fossils in a boulder.
Beautiful night skies for starwatching.
Sunset from our horse pasture.
Some of the nearly 1 mile of red cliffs on the property.
Hoodoos along the top edge of the cliffs.
The cliffs on the ranch range from 100 to 200 feet high.
Looking up along the (usually dry) waterfall at the end of Cathedral Canyon.
A large hoodoo in Cathedral Canyon.
Same hoodoos as viewed from the top of the cliffs forming Cathedral Canyon.
Rabbitbrush with bright yellow blooms in the fall.
You'd never know it from looking up from the base, but there is nice garden of small hoodoos on the top of the main pinnacle.
Nice views from the property line where it skirts the top of a small canyon.
Native juniper trees growing out of the bare rock on top of the cliffs.
Snow doesn't last long on the south faces of the cliffs in winter.
The main cliffs on the ranch are in the Bluff Sandstone, which overlies the Summerville formation which makes up the grassy slopes..
Mount Taylor, a large extinct volcano know to the Navajos as Tsoodził, forms a backdrop to the cliffs.
Another nice sunset.
The Jurassic-era Bluff Sandstone forming the cliffs erodes into pinnacles and amphitheaters at the top of the cliffs.
Shallow cave under a large pinnacle.