Hell's Half Acre

Yesterday, on our way back from Nicfest (see yesterday's post), Carol and I drove past Hell's Half Acre. According to roadsideamerica.com:

"Hell’s Half Acre is a geologic oddity – a craggy horseshoe-shaped gorge that drops away from an otherwise flat plain where Highway 20 runs east in central Wyoming. The 150+ ft. deep gorge -- actually 320-acres total as it spreads south -- is filled in one section with jagged rock spires, naturally sculpted into nightmarish chaos by an ancient offshoot of the Powder River. If you drive hundreds of miles in any direction you won't find anything like it.

If you go down into the canyon you can still find spent blank shells from the production of "Starship Troopers", a movie that was partially filmed at Hell's Half Acre about 10 years ago, along with the occasional bone where buffalo ran off the cliffs."

For more photos, check out coralinad's posts on May 16 and 17.