A group-use area features electricity, picnic tables, a fire pit and barbecue grills. Also inside the park are a limited number of cottage-style motel rooms and a camping and traveling supply store. Horses may be rented. Kodachrome Basin State Park is nine miles south of state Route 12 near Cannonville. It is open year-round, though temperatures are most comfortable in the spring and fall.
Springs brings blooming wildflowers and winter brings snow which caps the red rock.
Rain in the Desert I could see the storm just before it hit. Hundreds of yards out trees blew wildly in the wind, and as the first gust of wind hit it brought the intense smell of wet sage. Subsequent gusts brought the condensed smells of juniper and woodsmoke. It was hard to hang on beneath the oncoming waves of wind. Within moments the air cooled by ten degrees.