The badlands are significant due to the plethora of fossils and dinosaur bones that have been recovered in the slowly eroding hoodoos, narrow valleys and bone-dry coulees. |
While the 4,000 acres of high desert and hoodoos are hospitable to visitors in the fall and winter, spring and summer can be downright nasty. |
The Paiute Indians thought that these hoodoos were humanlike creatures turned to stone by an angry coyote god. |