Kodachrome State Park

When you head east from Bryce Canyon NP, along Utah SR 12, you descend the Grand Staircase to the small town of Tropic, where I stayed while visiting Bryce. A short way further down SR 12 is Cannonville, which is one of the jumping-off points for the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. This monument basically consists of two sections, the Grand Staircase and Paria River drainage in the west, and the Escalante River drainage in the east, separated by the Kaiparowits Plateau.

Cannonville is the northern end of the Cottonwood Road, which runs through the staircase region between the Paria River and the Kaiparowits Plateau. Not far from the village is the Kodachrome Basin State Park. The campground in this park is located in an area that is basically a bowl with walls of red slickrock sandstone. While I didn't find the immediate park vicinity to be quite worthy of its name, I did manage to find a few pictures there, including a nice shot looking up the staircase toward Bryce Canyon.