It's called the Wave: a huge, undulating formation in the stark Arizona desert. It's the star among the surreal rocks that fill this part of the stark Southwestern landscape.

Here's how to get a permit to hike The Wave, an iconic sandstone rock formation in the Coyote Buttes North area of Arizona. Only 64 permits are given out daily.

VERMILION CLIFFS NATIONAL MONUMENT — Small wooden balls click rapidly in a whirling bingo basket, as 78 hikers wait to see if their numbers will roll out to win one of 10 permits to visit a rock ...

We won the lottery. Not money, but a permit to hike to the Wave, a formation in the Coyote Buttes in northern Arizona. It was a rare chance to see one of nature’s most beautiful formations.

Visiting Arizona's remote, gorgeous Wave arizona Visiting remote geologic wonder requires luck, pluck, but the payoff is incredible By Jeff Greenwald Updated Dec 7, 2012 2:11 p.m.

Utah observes DST and Arizona does not, so as of Wednesday if the local time in Utah is 9:30 a.m., it's 8:30 a.m. in Arizona. The Navajo Nation in Arizona is an exception; it does observe daylight ...

Only 64 people per day are allowed to hike this Arizona landmark. As far as U.S. desert views go, it just doesn't get much better than The Wave — a remarkable sandstone rock formation in the ...

SALT LAKE CITY — The brutal summer heat proved too much on Tuesday for another hiker visiting The Wave, a flowing sandstone rock formation near the Utah-Arizona border that claimed the lives ...

Hikers pausing to view a rock formation known as The Wave in the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument in Arizona. Hikers walking on rocky terrain for a 3-mile trip to The Wave rock formation in the ...

Coyote Buttes, which straddle the Utah-Arizona border, feature a formation called “The Wave.” It’s a sandstone formation features varying colors and is shaped almost like a bowl.

A six-mile hike to The Wave rock formation on the Utah-Arizona border turned fatal Monday afternoon when Christophe Pochic, 49, of Belgium, became disoriented in the heat, reported KSL-TV.