devils kitchen

 Upload a photo

Devils Kitchen. North of the Ice Springs flows is Devils Kitchen, named for the hollow sound associated with its lava flow. In the days of horse and wagon when travelers traversed the flow, hoofs and wagon wheels vibrated the lava and the sound resonated through it, like tapping on a drumhead or on the flat tin roof of the devil’s kitchen. The Devils Kitchen fault forms a prominent escarpment for most of its length from the Ice Springs flows toward Pahvant Butte. The fault scarp is up to 60 feet high and exposes columnar basalt, characterized by vertically jointed columns, typically hexagonal and about two feet across, that form from the cooling and contracting of thick lava. Numerous boulders along the fault scarp have petroglyphs etched into the dark patina.