In 1928 Bryce Canyon was officially named a national park. The majestic local is filled with giant rock formations called Hoodoos, lending the landscape a beautifully eerie feel; in fact, the early European settlers named the rocks after the word voodoo and the native Americans believed that the formations would come to life as giants that threw rocks to ward off intruders. Although called a ‘canyon’ the place is actually an amphitheater and was created from an entirely different process than the normal river erosion [Read more...]