Vasquez Rocks

2011 | Best Place to Get Lost During Your Lunch Break

Most Vasquez Rocks visitors scurry straight up the towering rock that leans, like hands in prayer, over the park's dusty main parking lot. But amble off in the opposite direction -- into colossal folds of pallid red stone collared with cowering scrub -- and you may not see your car again for hours. Though it covers just 900 acres and borders the humming I-14, this otherworldly area -- where everything from Star Trek to CSI has filmed -- can swiftly swallow hikers. What... More »