In 1996, Congress combined the Bisti and De-Na-Zin Badlands to form the 45,000 acre Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness Area. Bis-tie translates from the Navajo, “a large area of shale hills.” ...

A winged hoodoo in the Bisti/De-Na-Zin badlands was formed by millions of years of erosion. Photograph by Jeremy Woodhouse, Getty Images. Some hoodoos are winglike; others resemble hatching eggs.

The eerie, desolate badlands of the Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness Area in the Four Corners region of New Mexico is home to some of the strangest-looking hoodoos on the planet. Many of them even ...

Though hoodoos are found across the world, they are most associated with the badlands and rocky deserts of the American West. Utah's Bryce Canyon National Park is by far the best spot to see ...

The Bisti Badlands in northern New Mexico look more like a dreamscape than a landscape. Totem poles of sandstone rocks, or hoodoos, reach haphazardly into the brilliant blue sky, some so crooked ...

The Bisti Badlands in northwestern New Mexico look like another planet. Sandstone-capped hoodoos fill canyons like a forest of altars to strange gods. An easy day trip from Farmington, ...

Huge hoodoos and small labyrinths of odd stone shapes have been created by eons of water and moisture wearing away at a softer layer of ash, ... For more on the Bisti Badlands, ...

I took my first trip to the badlands a little over a year ago, spending two days and one night under a full moon roaming the labyrinthine wonderland of the Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness about 40 ...