CO - Paradox Vly

Or Barney or Betty, either. Paradox Valley, Colorado.

Bedrock, Paradox Valley, Colorado. So I'm taking pictures of this old store (which was still open despite the defunct gas pump), and a pickup truck pulls up. And the woman driving then asks me enthusiastically if I knew that this store was in a scene in "Thelma & Louise"? Well, no, I'd never seen the movie, but she was very proud of the fact that lots of the movie was shot in and around the Paradox Valley!

A roughly east-west valley in western Colorado. It's a "paradox" because the valley axis is at right angles to the Dolores River crossing the valley. In fact the valley is of tectonic origin, from the deformation and dissolution of salt beds at depth--the famous (in geologic circles, anyway) "salt anticlines." Looking NNE off Colorado State Route 90 as it climbs up out of the valley.