The journey to the Crowley Lake Columns is more of an off-road escapade. You’ll need a four-wheel drive to tackle the rugged ...

The strange pillar-like formation emerged after Crowley Lake reservoir was completed in 1941: stone columns up to 20 feet tall connected by high arches, as if part of an ancient Moorish temple.

Randolph-Flagg estimates that as many as 5,000 columns exist within a 2- to 3-square-mile area east of the lake. They appear in clusters, and are diverse in size and shape.

The strange, pillarlike formation emerged after the Crowley Lake reservoir was completed in 1941: stone columns, up to 20 feet tall, connected by high arches, as if part of an ancient Moorish temple.

BITS ‘N’ PIECESResearchers have determined that the Crowley lake columns were created by cold water percolating down into — and steam rising up out of — hot volcanic ash spewed by a ...

Researchers have determined that columns along Crowley Lake were created by cold water percolating down into — and steam rising up out of — hot volcanic ash spewed by a cataclysmic explosion ...