USA/NV: Cathedral Gorge State Park

Cathedral Gorge State Park is Nevada’s answer to the Bryce Canyon in the neighboring Utah, although much less known or visited. Geologically, this used to be an ancient lake with with a lot of siltstone clay and bentonite sediments deposited at the bottom. When the earth got uplifted, the soft deposit were exposed to the elements of extreme heat and thunderstorms in the summer and freezing and snow in winter. Eventually, everything in the gorge got carved into an amazing array of spires, towers, ridges, hoodoos and caves. The caves are particularly incredible, you squeeze though passages just a feet wide with the walls rising almost 50-100 feet above you (not for the claustrophobic for sure).
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