Pipe Organ (Colorado National Monument)

It is also immediately northwest of another popular climbing destination, Independence Monument, and both can be seen from viewpoints along Rim Rock Drive.

[7] This 325-foot-high subsidiary peak was originally named Squall Spire in 1976 by Harvey T. Carter of the first ascent party.

[8] This tower is the remnant of a differentially eroded fin composed primarily of cliff-forming Wingate Sandstone, which consists of wind-borne, cross-bedded quartzose sandstones deposited as ancient sand dunes approximately 200 million years ago in the Late Triassic.

The thin caprock at the summit consists of fluvial sandstones of the resistant Kayenta Formation.

Precipitation runoff from this geographical feature drains to the Colorado River, approximately two miles to the northeast.