List of rock formations in the United States
The following is a partial list of rock formations in the United States, by state:
Arizona
Spider Rock
Pinnacle Balanced Rock
The West and East Mitten Buttes
Window Rock
- Antelope Canyon
- Canyon de Chelly National Monument
- Cathedral Rock, Red Rock State Park, Sedona
- Chiricahua National Monument
- Big Balanced Rock
- Duck on a Rock
- Mushroom Rock
- Natural Bridge
- Organ Pipe
- Pinnacle Balanced Rock
- Punch and Judy
- Sea Captain
- Church Rock
- Comb Ridge
- Coyote Buttes
- Grand Canyon
- Angels Window
- Cheops Pyramid
- Horseshoe Mesa
- Sumner Butte
- Zoroaster Temple and many other named buttes, mesas and 'temples'
- Hole-in-the-Rock, Papago Park, Phoenix
- Monument Valley
- Hunts Mesa
- Merrick Butte
- The Mitten Buttes
- North Window
- Three Sisters
- The Thumb
- Totem Pole
- Petrified Forest National Park
- Agate Bridge
- Phallic Rock
- Tonto Natural Bridge
- Window Rock
California
Devil's Postpile
Skull Rock
El Capitan
- Alabama Hills
- Bird Rock
- Castle Crags
- Devil's Postpile
- Eagle Rock
- Gull Rock
- Indian Rock, Indian Rock Park
- Mono Lake Tufa State Natural Reserve
- Moro Rock, Sequoia National Park
- Morro Rock
- Mussel Rock
- Nine Sisters (aka "The Morros"), San Luis Obispo
- Pinnacles
- Red Rock Canyon
- Robbers Roost
- San Pedro Rock
- Seal Rocks (San Francisco, California)
- Seal Rock (San Mateo County, California)
- Sears Rock
- Skull Rock, Joshua Tree National Park
- Tahquitz
- Trona Pinnacles
- Vasquez Rocks
- Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park
Colorado
Painted Wall
- Castle Rock
- Chimney Rock
- Colorado National Monument
- Devils Kitchen
- Independence Monument
- Window Rock
- Curecanti Needle
- Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs
- Painted Wall, Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park
- Petit Grepon, Rocky Mountain National Park
- Red Rocks Amphitheatre
- Wheeler Geologic Area
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Garden of the Gods
Indiana
- Devil's Backbone, near Charlestown
- Hanging Rock, near Lagro
- Jug Rock, near Shoals
- Portland Arch, near Fountain
Iowa
Kansas
Mushroom Rock
Kentucky
- Mantle Rock, a natural arch in Livingston County[1][2]
- Natural Bridge
Massachusetts
Plymouth Rock
Michigan
- Miner's Castle, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
- Turnip Rock
Minnesota
- Devil's Kettle, Judge C. R. Magney State Park
- In-Yan-Teopa, Frontenac State Park
- Palisade Head
Missouri
Montana
Chief Mountain
Nebraska
Chimney Rock
Nevada
Lexington Arch
- Bridge Mountain's natural arch
- Lexington Arch, Great Basin National Park
- Little Finland, Gold Butte National Monument
- Red Rock Canyon
- Valley of Fire, Clark County
- Elephant Rock
- Fire Wave (similar to but smaller than The Wave in Arizona)
- Natural Arch (collapsed in 2010)
New Hampshire
- Madison Boulder
- Old Man of the Mountain (collapsed in 2003)
New Jersey
New Mexico
Shiprock, NW New Mexico
- Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness Study Area
- Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness
- City of Rocks State Park, Grant County
- Kneeling Nun, Hanover, Grant County
- Natural Bridge, Corona, Lincoln County
- Needles Eye, Cooney, Catron County
- Needles Eye Arch and Little Needles Eye Arch, Florida Mountains, Luna County
- Saddle Rock, Grant County
- Shiprock
- Tent Rocks, Cochiti (called Kasha-Katuwe in the language of the Cochiti people)
- Tooth of Time, Colfax County
New York
North Carolina
Oklahoma
Oregon
Wizard Island
South Dakota
Tennessee
- Chimney Rocks, Campbell County[3]
- Twin Arches, Pickett County[4]
Texas
El Capitan reef
Utah
Delicate Arch at sunset
Thor's Hammer
Mesa Arch at sunrise, Island in the Sky district
Aerial view of Waterpocket Fold
Toadstool, Fisher Towers
Zebra Canyon
Entrance to the Subway
- Arches National Park
- Bears Ears
- Bryce Canyon National Park
- Sinking Ship
- Thor's Hammer
- Canyonlands National Park
- Angel Arch
- Druid Arch
- Island in the Sky
- Mesa Arch
- Upheaval Dome
- Capitol Reef National Park
- Capitol Dome
- Capitol Gorge
- Cassidy Arch
- The Castle
- Golden Throne
- Hickman Bridge
- Waterpocket Fold
- Cedar Breaks National Monument
- Dead Horse Point State Park
- Devil's Slide
- Elephant Rock in Kings Canyon, Millard County
- Fantasy Canyon
- Fisher Towers
- Goblin Valley State Park
- Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
- Coyote Gulch - slot canyons, arches and a natural bridge
- Devil's Garden
- Grosvenor Arch
- Zebra Canyon
- Hole in the Rock
- Kodachrome Basin State Park
- Mexican Hat
- Natural Bridges National Monument
- Kachina Natural Bridge
- Owachomo Natural Bridge
- Sipapu Natural Bridge
- Newspaper Rock State Historic Monument
- Notch Peak
- Parriott Mesa
- Rainbow Bridge National Monument
- San Rafael Reef
- The Convent
- The Rectory
- Valley of the Gods
- Zion National Park
- Angel's Landing
- Bee Hive
- Checkerboard Mesa
- The Great White Throne
- Kolob Arch
- The Subway
- The East Temple
- The West Temple
- The Three Patriarchs
- Zion Narrows
Virginia
Natural Bridge, Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Seneca Rocks, West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Independence Rock, Wyoming
References
- ↑ "Mantle Rock Preserve". nps.gov. Retrieved March 14, 2018.
- ↑ "The Real Story of Mantle Rock". nps.gov. Retrieved March 14, 2018.
- ↑ "History of Campbell County, Tennessee: Communities of Campbell County: Cotula". tngennet.org. Retrieved March 13, 2018.
- ↑ "Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area: Twin Arches". nps.gov. April 14, 2015. Retrieved March 13, 2018.
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