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.” ...

You may think you've seen the best of the United States, but wait until you venture into this New Mexico oasis complete with ...

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, ...

My wife, Dianne, and I are on our first hike into the Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness Area, a fantasy land of geologic oddities I’ve longed to explore. It lies near Farmington, N.M., about 90 minutes ...

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 ...

Hoodoos, badlands — and a dinosaur hunter. Where are you? Clues: A paleontology dynasty born of the Bone Wars Answer: … These incredibly strange rock formations are part of New Mexico’s Ah ...

An ornate tree lizard basks beside a 74-million-year-old fossilized log in the Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness. Photo by Jeff Mitton. By Jeff ... The San Juan Basin is about 100 miles across and has eight ...