Road Trip–Painted Hills 2

Photograph of The Painted Hills, one of the three units of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, near Mitchell, OregonClouds of ash from volcanic eruptions settled over great parts of central Oregon. Layers of ash, over long periods of time, combined into different mineral compositions forming the bands of color visible today

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