Where is Bisti de Na Zin?
New Mexico
The Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness area covers 45,000 acres of badlands just south of Farmington, New Mexico. This high desert wilderness features a vast landscape containing some of the most unique rock formations on this planet.
What are the New Mexico badlands?
Bisti Badlands
Little visited and largely unknown, the Bisti Badlands is an amazingly scenic and colorful expanse of undulating mounds and unusual eroded rocks covering 4,000 acres, hidden away in the high desert of the San Juan Basin that covers the distant northwest corner of New Mexico, yet this area is just one of many similar …
What formed the Bisti Badlands?
Considered as part of the “badlands” of the San Juan Basin, the Bisti was created through water deposition by seas, rivers, and swamps over the course of 550 million years and shaped over the last two million years through the combination of land uplifting and erosion (Brister and Hoffman, 2002).
Is Bisti de Na Zin open?
Open year-round. Because of the climate, most of the visits occur in the late spring/early summer and in the fall.
Where was the Bisti Beast found?
An early relative of Tyrannosaurus rex, the Bistahieversor (Bisti Beast) fossil was discovered in 1997, and excavated in 1998 from the Bisti/De-na-zin Wilderness in the Four Corners of New Mexico by NMMNHS paleontologist Thomas Williamson, PhD.
Why is New Mexico called the Badlands?
The area takes its name not only from the striking stone formations that litter the landscape (“bisti” being a Navajo term meaning “among the adobe formations”), but from petroglyphs of a crane (bird, not construction equipment) that were found in the area—”De-Na-Zin” being the Navajo word for the animal.
Where is alien throne?
New Mexico badlands
Where is Alien Throne? Alien Throne stands in the Valley of Dreams, a remote field of hoodoos on Navajo Nation land in the northwestern New Mexico badlands. It’s filled with petrified wood — even petrified trunks and branches — and is rich with fossils.
Where to find De Na Zin in New Mexico?
There is another, smaller parking area 1/4 mile further north. To reach the De-Na-Zin access, Drive NM 371 approximately 43 3/4 miles south of Farmington (from the San Juan River crossing) or approximately 37 1/4 miles north of Crownpoint (from the intersection of 371 and Navajo Service Route 9), and turn east on County Road 7500.
When is the De Na Zin Wilderness area open?
De-Na-Zin (Deh-nah-zin) takes its name from the Navajo words for “cranes.” None. Open year-round. Because of the climate, most of the visits occur in the late spring/early summer and in the fall. Since this is a Wilderness Area, it is closed to motorized vehicles and mechanical forms of transportation (mountain bikes included).
Where does the name De Na Zin come from?
Translated from the Navajo language, Bisti (Bis-tie) means “a large area of shale hills.”. De-Na-Zin (Deh-nah-zin) takes its name from the Navajo words for “cranes.”.
