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The colorful pink, red, white, and brown stacked cliffs of Red Rocks Canyon offer visitors of all ages opportunities for rock scrambling and exploration. For thousands of years, Red Rock Canyon was used as a Native American trade route. Travelers could navigate through the canyon using distinct rock formations such as Camel Rock and Turk’s Turban to guide the way. For early settlers in the 1850’s to 1890’s, Red Rock Canyon was a route to travel west, a site to pan for gold in the sand, a stagecoach stop, and a pathway for driving flocks of sheep northward.
In 1968, Red Rock Canyon was established as the first state park in Kern County. Because of the distinctly shaped rocks and bright colors many movies, such as Jurassic Park, Holes, Lost in Space, and Hot Shots, had scenes filmed here. The park has many diverse rock layers that are not only beautiful but offer opportunities to learn through paleontology, geology, and photography.
Many of the rocks in the area have slowly been eroded by the wind and rain, forming tall stacked columns called hoodoos. The striking red rock layers have developed their color from the weathering of the iron and magnetite inside of them. These beautiful colors have drawn people to the area for thousands of years. Thanks to a natural process called oxidation, we will continue to see them for thousands more.
