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Little City of Rocks

Pillar on Columbia Plateau, Rocky Mountains, Little City of Rocks WSA near Gooding, ID

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The Little City of Rocks Wilderness Study Area is a Bureau of Land Management wilderness study area in Gooding County, Idaho between the towns of Gooding and Fairfield. The WSA can be accessed via a short dirt road from Idaho State Highway 46. It covers 5,875 acres (2,378 ha) and has a state inholding that covers 640 acres (260 ha). The WSA is located on the Bennett Hills and features a collection of rock features called hoodoos, which cover about 34% of the WSA. The Little City of Rocks WSA is contiguous (but divided by dirt roads) with three other WSAs in the Bennett Hills: Black Canyon, Gooding City of Rocks East, and Gooding City of Rocks West. Portions of the WSA's borders are formed by dirt roads, which also separates it from the Black Canyon WSA. Sagebrush and grasses are the…

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Rhyolite (Miocene). (IDTmr;0)

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