Arizona Oddities

Main Menu

  • Home
  • Your Guides
  • Departments
    • Art
    • Dose of History
    • Culture
    • Natural Surroundings
    • Odd Observations
    • Weather Talk
    • Food & Dining
    • Small Town Scene
    • Recreation
    • Only in Arizona
  • Get the Books
  • Contact Us

logo

Arizona Oddities

  • Home
  • Your Guides
  • Departments
    • Art
    • Dose of History
    • Culture
    • Natural Surroundings
    • Odd Observations
    • Weather Talk
    • Food & Dining
    • Small Town Scene
    • Recreation
    • Only in Arizona
  • Get the Books
  • Contact Us
Natural SurroundingsNorthern ArizonaOdd Observations
Home›Natural Surroundings›Elephant Feet in Northern Arizona?

Elephant Feet in Northern Arizona?

By Sam Lowe
March 29, 2010
4836
3

Every now and then, as I search across Arizona for things of an unusual nature, something pops up as a complete surprise, something I’d never heard about even though I thought I’d seen ’em all. Several of them did that to me recently as I wandered across the northern part of the state, and they involve elephants. Or things that evoke mental images of elephants.

They’re actually rock formations, but they look like elephant feet. Great big elephant feet.

Two of them stand along Highway 160, at Tonalea some 20 miles east of Tuba City on the Navajo Reservation. They’re giant sandstone pillars and they look so much like elephant feet that you don’t even have to squint your eyes to get the picture. The fact that the pillars are grayish white and brownish red instead of gray does not affect the illusion. Nor does the fact that they’re about 20 feet tall make any difference. Who knows how big them desert-stompers were billions of years ago?

The others are just outside of Williams at a lovely place called, quite naturally, Elephant Rocks Golf Course. The entryway to the club house is guarded by huge gray boulders that give the course its name because they most certainly look like the feet of an oversized mammoth that may have called the place home a million years ago. Maybe even longer than that. The rocks are nestled between the Ponderosa pines that surround the course, which is a dandy place to escape Arizona’s summer heat because it’s green and it’s located at 7,000 feet above sea level.

Golfers and archeologists can call 928-635-4935 for tee ties and information.

(Visited 1,619 times, 1 visits today)

Related Posts:

  1. Exploring Northern Arizona’s Lava River Caves
  2. Celebrating the Centennial: 11 Hotspots for Outdoor Enthusiasts
  3. Experience a Piece of Wild Africa in Northern Arizona
  4. Get Your Flinstones Fix in Northern Arizona
  5. Do Your Feet Get Bigger When You Move to the Desert?
Tagslandmarksrock formations

3 comments

  1. david b moore 27 March, 2012 at 07:52 Reply

    Elephant feet? What about Elephant Rock off of 288 toward Young AZ?

  2. p johnson 30 November, 2014 at 06:00 Reply

    I have seen some pictures of the elephant feet rock formation but in each of them were a white like mist. Only in these picture did mist appear and not on any other pictures taken before nor after were the pictures affected. Could you give me an ideal of what caused this unusual mist in the pictures ?

  3. Joan Wilfong 11 November, 2019 at 18:52 Reply

    These rock formations are more like 40- 50 feet tall.

Leave a reply Cancel reply

Arizona Oddities Archive

Most Popular Posts

  • How to Keep Scorpions Away from Your Home
  • How to Keep Javelinas Away from Your Yard
  • What’s With All the Backyard Concrete-Block Fences…
  • Did You Know it’s Against the Law to Grow…
  • Four Deserts, One State

This Week Past Years

2018

  • The Anthem Hitchhiker Waits for a Ride to Nowhere

2017

  • Biosphere 2 Brings a Rainforest to the Arizona Desert

2016

  • Yuma's Bridge to Nowhere

2013

  • Winslow Chamber of Commerce Housed in Old Arizona Trading Post
  • Sculpture Garden at Yavapai College Features a Fancy, 5-Foot Frog

2012

  • What is Orange Stringy Substance Covering Desert Plants?
  • Arizona History Trivia 4: Can You Pass?

2011

  • What Causes "Pool of Water" Reflections on the Road?

2010

  • The Case of The Vanishing Train Robbers
  • Recent

  • Popular

  • Comments

  • Find a Famous Writer and Explorer's Mountain Retreat in Greer

    Find a Famous Writer and Explorer’s Historic Mountain Retreat in Greer

    By Taylor Haynes
    July 31, 2020
  • thousands of Mexican free tail bats make Phoenix tunnel their summer home

    Thousands of Mexican Free-Tail Bats Make Phoenix Tunnel Their Summer Home

    By Taylor Haynes
    July 17, 2020
  • How to Keep Scorpions Away from Your Home

    By Andrea Aker
    January 3, 2011
  • Javelina

    How to Keep Javelinas Away from Your Yard

    By Andrea Aker
    November 23, 2011
  • Phil Motta
    on
    August 27, 2021

    Why Does Downtown Phoenix Seem to Have Two Downtowns?

    I know this post ...
  • Carol
    on
    October 17, 2020

    The Tucson Artifacts are the Southwest’s Greatest Hoax

    lol ... these "clues" ...

Follow us

© Copyright 2009 – 2023 Aker Ink, LLC :: Arizona Oddities is published by Aker Ink.