is a well kept secret.
The downtown business hub of Paradox, Colorado on a weekday afternoon.
Buckeye Recreation Area at 7,700 feet (2,350 m) in elevation. It’s a nicely clean and quiet US Forest Service campground.
View of the high La Sals at dusk. No astrophotography was attempted as it is a full Moon.
View to southeast at dawn, down the long axis of the Paradox Valley. Early explorers were puzzled as to why the Dolores River flows across this valley rather than along its length, finding it paradoxical. Hence the name Paradox Valley was adopted, and the strata responsible for developing these long and linear collapsed salt-cored anticlines is called the Paradox Formation.