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40 Items Tagged with "butte"

Name	Description	Copyright
Initial Point	This photo shows the prominent lava butte called Initial Point. It is the beginning survey point in the State of Idaho and is marked as such with a US Geological Survey brass marker on its top.	Public domain. Photo by Aldis Garsvo
Double Arched Bridge over Hell Creek	Only the bridge ends are still visible of this once very important piece of architecture. The bridge stood across Hell Creek at the east end of Wilson Lake until May of 1993 when the deck and arches were washed away during a flood.	Public domain. Photo by Gordon Mai
The Drumheller Channels	Wigeon Lake in the Drumheller Channels is just one of many lakes that dot this National Natural Landmark. Additionally, Crab Creek, the longest creek in Washington, winds its way through the area. The Drummheller Channels are an example of 'butte and basin' scabland, an erosional landscape characterized by hundreds of isolated steep sided hills surrounded by a braided network of channels or coulees. The Ice Age Flood waters left this area a rugged jumble of cliffs, canyons, lakes and remnants of ancient lava flows.	Copyright © 2000 Teri J. Pieper.
Changing Scenic Overlook	Visitors get out on a smooth-topped butte for a look at the yellow colored paleosols, or fossilized soils, that stain the formations below the Changing Scenes Overlook.	Public domain. Photo supplied by Badlands National Park
Buttes along the Colorado South of Moab	On the Potash Road along the Colorado River a driver will see a never-ending variety of sculptures to marvel at in the tall redrock bluffs towering beside the road.	Copyright © July 2006 Bob Ward.
Steamboat Rock	Steamboat Rock is seen from SR 155 on the Coulee Corridor. Steamboat Rock is a long established area landmark, first used by nomadic Native American tribes and then by early settlers. The basalt butte rises 800 feet above Banks Lake. It was once an island in the Columbia River bed. When the Columbia returned to its natural course, after centuries of being dammed by ice, the massive rock remained. There is a Washington State Park featuring large campgrounds, day use areas, boat launches and hiking trails. The south end of the peninsula is managed as a wildlife area by Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.	Copyright © 2004 Teri J. Pieper.
Smithsonian Butte Landscape	Jagged formations near Smithsonian Butte create a bowl-like landscape filled with scattered shrubbery.	Public domain. Photo by Chris Baldwin of the BLM
View from Smithsonian Butte	Smithsonian Butte National Back Country Byway snakes across red-colored dirt as it rises in elevation, offering a wide view of the valley below.	Public domain. Photo by Chris Baldwin of the BLM
Overlook from Smithsonian Butte	Looking down from Smithsonian Butte, green trees and shrubs frame the valley below. The rock layers which form the mesas of the valleys are colored in southern Utah's signature red, as well as cream, gold and even light green and blue-ish gray.	Public domain. Photo by Chris Baldwin of the BLM
Powell Point and Scenic Byway 12	The forest-topped bluff of pink-and-white Powell Point rises above the gold and white buttes and mesas of the Escalante-Grand Staircase area of Scenic Byway 12 between Cannonville and Henrieville.	Public domain. Photo by A. E. Crane
Heading Up to Roughlock Hill	A summery green landscape stretches for miles along the South Bighorn Red Wall Back Country Byway.	Public domain. Talbot Hauffe/Wyoming Department of Transportation
Red Butte in the Summer	A hazy view of Red Butte reveals a two-tone Wyoming landscape in brilliant red and green.	Public domain. Talbot Hauffe / Wyoming Department of Transportation
Walkway to Fossil Butte	A long smooth raised walkway guides visitors to the entrance to the Fossil Butte Visitor Center.	Public domain. Photo by J. Crane
Notched Butte	A notch in the red rock butte makes for an interesting silhouette in this photo of the Goblin Valley Area.	Public domain. Photo by Brian Anderson
Perched Rock	The tip of this butte seems shifted to the right in this photo from the Goblin Valley area.	Public domain. Photo by Brian Anderson
Rugged Country	The red rock folds upward in this photo taken near Hanksville.	Public domain. Photo by Brian Anderson