White Pocket, Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona

This unique Landscape gem found in Arizona stays on your mind forever. We shown images here again and again. This place has so many facets it keeps amazing and dreaming of faraway lands.

Even more impressive than “The Wave” and much more accessible at any time without a permit. What you will defiantly need though is a high clearance vehicle, preferable 4x4 off-road.

The "White Pocket" region is rightfully named after its white rocks that seem to be sewn together like leather footballs in pentagons or polygons.
With some friends, we also found a super nice comparison to brain matter. Brains sausages?

Some solitary pines managed to grow in between the formations and hold that key for a surprise when you walk around this outlandish place. Depending on the time of the year you find lots of little ponds. Have a closer look because, in many of them you see “shrimps” paddle, small, primeval crustaceans shaped like horseshoe crabs, which busily filter the water.

So there is more to this place than what you see at Google Earth. “White Pocket” offers not only white rocks, but a lively mixture of white, red, yellow, and orange in the truest sense of the word as a result of iron and other mineral deposits - as well as mirror effects when the recent rains Have filled sinks.

Eye-catchers of a special kind are places where erosion exposed orange-red areas of the Wingate Formation under the white rock layer of the Kayenta Formation. There is no fixed route through the area. You run on your own and explore as much as your feet and time allow. One day is basically not enough for ambitious hobby photographers. The Kanab visitor center can give you a map drawn like in the 1970 black pen. It's so cool that alone is worth going to.

However, since the rough approach can only be mastered with a 4 × 4 vehicle due to sandy passages, an overnight stay on site is preferable to a second approach. You can get a backcountry permit at the Paria Ranger Station or the Escalante Visitor Center. That way you can enjoy the morning yoga session with an unmatched surroundings. Set and Setting make this place magical and allow mind wondering experiences.

Whenever in the area we try to spend some time. Sleeping on the bed of the truck you can see the stars and listen to coyotes around you. It does not get any more wild west.

You won't believe all this to look like this until you go there.