Kodachrome Basin State Park in southern Utah is known for its rare sandstone spires and columns, with sixty-seven identified sand pipes rising from the basin. Their origin is still debated, with theories ranging from hardened sediment-filled hot spring vents to sandstone intrusions forced upward by tectonic activity. Long before the area became a park, Native Americans moved through this landscape, and by around the turn of the 20th century cattlemen from Cannonville and Henrieville used it as winter pasture. Explored and photographed in 1948, it was named Kodachrome Flat and later became a state park in 1962, valued for both striking geology and quiet outdoor recreation.