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The Grand Staircase is not a staircase in the literal sense, but rather a massive geologic formation that stretches from the Grand Canyon to Bryce Canyon. The various colors of rock in that area are due to different layers that run the full distance of the staircase, but different layers are exposed in different areas. The purple and other colors that you see at the Grand Canyon are present at Zion and Bryce Canyon too, but you can't see them there because those layers are underground in those spots.

We visited a state park with a tons of beautiful petrified wood specimens. Petrified wood is where in certain conditions, instead of decaying, the organic material in logs is replaced by stone over many years, so although they still look like logs, they are solid stone of various beautiful types.

Then we jumped a fence into a national forest campground that hadn't opened for the season yet in order to hike to a small waterfall.