The cliffs are on private land. There’s a donation box at the gate where you can pay the $5 vehicle admission fee.

This spectacular landscape of high, eroded, remarkable “badland”, featured in the films Mulan, and Slow West.

The Clay Cliffs were first formed as gravels, sand and silt, in fresh waters.

The sediments were deposited from around 20 million years ago. They have since been uplifted and tilted by the nearby active Ostler Fault, and eroded.

The lower strata represent lake deposits, while the upper section contains ancient river gravels. These river gravels probably eroded off the rising Southern