Main trailhead with wind turbines in the distance.
Tansyaster flower on the side of the trail.
Photo Date: 
03/06/2016
Aerial view of the southwest end of the site.
Rabbitbush in flower in the mines.
Life finds a way.
The sun shines through the clay formations.
Hiking through the white Pikes Peak granite layer (but not climbing over them).
Multiple layers, representing millions of years of geological history.
Hiking along the Paint Mines Interpretive Park.
Hiking along the Paint Mines Interpretive Park.
Life finds a way.
A rabbit running through multicolored layers.
Photo Date: 
03/06/2016
Top view of multicolored layers with wind turbines in the distance.
Hikers on the trail leading above the hoodoos.
Panoramic view of the hoodoos at the Paint Mines Interpretive Park.
Sun shining through hoodoos.
Flowering rabbitbrush is abundant from August through September.
Sun shining behind hoodoos.
Bee coming out of a burrow.
Top view of multicolored layers at the Paint Mines Interpretive Park.
Photo Date: 
03/06/2016
This part of the site makes it easier to appreciate the multiple layers, not only different colors, but different materials altogether.
Photo Date: 
03/06/2016
Sun going down between hoodoos.
Photo Date: 
03/06/2016
There are many little spots to appreciate the variety of the formations.
Photo Date: 
03/06/2016
Aerial view of the Paint Mines Interpretive Park.
Photo Date: 
09/16/2016