There are no trails in Chalk Basin's colorful badlands, but adventurer who explore this remote Owyhee River canyon will discover dry waterfalls, pinnacles, and rock "goblins" reminiscent of Utah's Bryce Canyon National Park.

If you're driving here from . . .

. . . Pinnacles and flutes and ridges and hoodoos of colored chalk stand like armies in a forgotten valley below you.  Explore the the left 0.4 mile to a viewpoint atop a yellow knoll and an even more spectacular yellow dome.  . . .

This chapter is an excerpt from 100 Hikes: Eastern Oregon