I stumbled upon this formation purely by accident while hiking around Valley of Fire State Park. There was no sign and no trail for this place. It's not really too far from the main road. But I was really surprised because I haven't seen it on maps of Valley of Fire or on Flickr photo archives of Valley of Fire. Nature has obviously sculpted an eagle's head to mark this location as sacred. At least, I felt it was a sacred place. So I asked permission before taking this shot. Valley of Fire State Park is located a short drive north of Las Vegas, Nevada, in the Mojave Desert. It features phenomenal Aztec and Navajo sandstone rock formations similar to the national parks in southern Utah. Colorful veins of lavender, red, rust, yellow and purple streak the sandstone as a result of oxidation of iron minerals. In places, a rose quartz can be found amid the sandstone formations. The valley was once the bed of an inland sea. Petrified pine trees, seashells and coral have been found in the formations, a testament to the variety of climate changes that have occurred here.