Looking mostly south at the North and South Coyote Teepees (Buttes) and THE Wave formation south.

Nearly 200 million years, the region was a sandy desert where huge dunes migrated across the landscape pushed by seasonal winds. Prevailing wind directions of that ancient Jurassic time can be determined by examining the cross-bedding (layers) in the sandstone. What hikers see today are some of the original cross-bedded dunes shaped into substantial landforms and exposed by erosion from eons of runoff.