White Pocket, Arizona

White Pocket is located on the Arizona-Utah border, accessed via a remote deep sandy road on top of the Vermilion Cliffs. It's a beautiful mosaic of sandstone structures, hoodoos, small buttes, and miniature monoliths. Some of the buttes have beautiful color layers with vein-like figurines that appear fossilized into place — minerals tinting the sandstone while water and wind erosion sculpted the wavy formations visible today.

Some of the landscape resembled dragon skin — the sun raking across the surface accentuates the hexagonal texture. White Pocket is one of many fascinating sandstone features in the Vermilion Cliffs; The Wave is not far away. The road becomes very deep sand — high clearance and ideally a 4x4 are essential. About one hour from the highway. A remarkable and surreal place worth the effort.