Flickr John Fowler - Flickr/Creative Commons The Bisti Badlands in northern New Mexico look more like a dreamscape than a landscape. Totem poles of sandstone rocks, or hoodoos, reach haphazardly ...

The Bisti Badlands in northwestern New Mexico look like another planet. Sandstone-capped hoodoos fill canyons like a forest of altars to strange gods. An easy day trip from Farmington, N.M., the ...

I took my first trip to the badlands a little over a year ago, spending two days and one night under a full moon roaming the labyrinthine wonderland of the Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness about 40 ...

The high desert plains surrounding the Bisti/De-Na-Zin are about 6,500 feet above sea level, though the badlands themselves sit 200 to 400 feet below that due to erosion. Hikers will find many ...