Painted Mountain in Oregon, USA
（painted hills）
The full name of Painted Mountain: John Day Fossil Beds Painted Hills Unit is located in the area of John Day Fossil Beds National Site in Oregon, USA. This site park has almost 57 million square meters, and is composed of three independent scenic spots, including Painted Mountain, Yangyan, and Krano.
In fact, these colored stripes are slowly formed with the evolution of 35 million years. During this period, streams flowed slowly over the plains, and volcanic ash slowly settled down. The minerals in the volcanic ash precipitate and condense, forming colored bands that we can see today.
Painted Mountain has three characteristics:
One is its rich colors. People often like to use God's palette or paint buckets that are overturned in the sky to describe places with unusually bright colors. Painted mountains are just like this. The colors here are self-evident. The unique colorful landforms are like smearing colored paint on the ground, light white, dark green, dark red, and earthy yellow. From a distance, they look very similar to the pattern of sea shells. Full, strong sense of layers, colorful, beautiful, beautiful colors are just right, ghostly axe works like oil painting. Such beautiful colors can only be described by the paints adjusted in the master palette of oil painting. In the hills that are covered with a large area of bright colors, the eyes are flying, the eyes are full of light, the scenery is everywhere, and the colors are growing step by step. It's really refreshing, drunk without wine; like falling in wonderland, fluttering.
The second is that the magical colors here are entirely from floating soil. At first glance, the terrain here is somewhat similar to the Colorado Grand Canyon, with its gullies vertical and horizontal, and the magnificent momentum; and the colors are like Zhangye ’s colorful Danxia, the color is like Wodan, Can Ruomingxia. However, unlike the rock structures at these two places, the hills here are mostly formed by the change of river beaches billions of years ago. They look like rock-like solid shapes, and are essentially piled up like floating soil. There are iron elements of different prices in the content or other natural weathering reasons, which form various red and golden hills. Therefore, the best time to visit the Painted Mountain is best in the afternoon or evening, when the low light shines on the colorful ground, which will help bring out the moisture in the soil and make the various colors of the soil. More colorful. If you happen to arrive after the thunderstorm in summer, you will be very lucky. After the rain returns to the setting sun, the painting will be more brilliant.
The third is the complete original ecological state here. The painted mountains under the sun, the hills are covered with a layer of colorful silky veils, shining brightly, and the colors are exceptionally gorgeous, which makes people marvel at the strange light of this world. However, even if the clouds are covered by the sun and there is no direct sunlight, the color of the mountain here is still clear. Light white, brown red, dark yellow, and blue gray constitute a colorful picture, which interprets the wonders of nature's creations. In short, Painted Mountain is a kind of natural beauty that does not need to be decorated, and does not need any decoration and unnecessary decoration. There are no shops, no restaurants, no tourist service center, only the vast land and vast sky. The only artificial trace is a wooden boardwalk built along the hillside to protect the colored soil from damage.
Stroll on the simple boardwalk of Caihui Mountain, change the scenery step by step, and watch the scenery and color in front of you constantly change and change with different angles and different lights. At this time, our hearts are already full of mixed feelings: admiring the miracle of God's creation this day, lamenting the wonderful carvings of this time, thanking for this paradise-like wonder, and thanking this wonderful treasure of nature.
