Red Rock Canyon, in the El Paso Mountains, California. The world-famous Red Cliffs along Highway 14, at Red Rock Canyon State Park, in Kern County, California, backdrop for many Hollywood movies, videos and commercials. The dramatically colored, geologically sculpted strata belong to the late Miocene Dove Spring Formation of the Ricardo Group, roughly 10 million years old; at the very top is a resistant volcanic tuff breccia. Along the cliff-face, the prominent red bands are channel sandsto