Geology
Volcanic
9 destinations along 8 roads
Volcanic rock across the West is geology and, for several nations, holy ground — and the second reading comes first. The San Francisco Peaks, sacred to thirteen tribes, are a live argument over a ski resort making snow from wastewater; Dzil Ligai Si'an, the White Mountain, is a summit the Apache ask you to stop short of; Cave Rock, De'ek Wadapush to the Washoe, was closed to climbers after a long fight to protect it. The forms vary — Sunset Crater is a cinder cone people watched erupt around 1085, Snow Canyon a lava flow poured over red sandstone. Read the rock, but know whose it is.