Zion National Park shines brightest amid an impressive Southern Utah collection of National Parks and National Monuments as the most visited, hiked, camped, enjoyed entertaining its visitors with vertical enormity opposite of the vast depths of the Grand Canyon of Northern Arizona. Zion National Park is an eight layered sandstone masterpiece of towering cliffs, deep red canyons far different from those of Arizona with attached mesas, buttes and massive monoliths. It took eight-hundred-million years of Earth time to carve and mold Southern Utah and attached Northern Arizona as both make up the grand staircase geology as well as Utah's Cedar Breaks National Monument and Bryce Canyon National Park. While most visitors just trel the vast system of Southern Utah scenic byways, including highway 9 also called Zion-Mt. Carmel Scenic Byway, others jump into slot canyons, trails, routes and backpacking to locate the treasure at the end - often a desert waterfall or high-end viewpoint of expanse to see what cannot be viewed without getting out on your own two feet.
Southern Utah The National Park Service, Utah and Federal BLM system entertain Zion National Park guests with information and education also found here on this site created by me starting early 1990 to spend years of time to share with those of you who also enjoy Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, Grand Canyon National Park, Dixie National Forest as Cedar Breaks National Monument, Cedar Mountain and Red Canyon as well as Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and Paria Canyons, Coyote Buttes Wilderness Area. Directions to Zion National ParkFrom the North: Trel I-15 south, past Beer. exit on Hwy 20. Follow US-89 to Mount Carmel Junction. Take SR-9 to Zion's east entrance. From Arizona: Trel US-89A through Fredonia, Arizona and Kanab Utah. Follow US-89 to Mount Carmel Junction. Take SR-9 to the east park entrance. From the South: Trel I-15 north. Take exit 16 and trel through Hurricane to La Verkin. Continue on SR-9 to the south entrance of the park. SR-9 through Zion National Park is always open and is also called the Zion-Mt. Carmel Highway. Restrict RV size
I share my view of another canyoneer and the Zion Narrows, which is indeed the Granddaddy of all US slot canyons and is property of Zion National Park of Southern Utah - home of slot canyons galore. Slot canyons result from the soft rock found in only Southern Utah and Northern Arizona Lodging and services are ailable on the gorgeous east side of Zion National Park, where guests are close to Zion National Park - 12 miles, Bryce Canyon National Park - 60 miles, Cedar Breaks National Monument - 45 miles, Coral Pink Sand Dunes - 12 miles and North Rim of the Grand Canyon - 85 miles. It's where city traffic is absent and skies, water and air are still bright and clean.Vacation in Zion National Park - Utah Drive the grand staircase geology to sit upon the grandest scenery on Earth all bunched together in a small corner of Southern Utah and Northern Arizona held together by short and scenic byways to begin at Zion National Park's south side to find Zion Canyon and zig and zag your way through gorgeous landscaping with charming small communities on their outskirts for restaurants, lodging and even golf. The Zion-Mt. Carmel Scenic Byways leads to the East side of Zion National Park to offer quiet, solitude and as the key to all other attractions, not city, to include Bryce Canyon National Park and nearby Dixie National Forest as Red Canyon, Cedar Mountain and Cedar Breaks National Monument. Scenic byway 89 leads to Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park on the way to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, 85 miles from Mount Carmel Junction, the true heart of the Southern Utah magnificence called parks, monuments and byways. A return trip to Utah and Zion National Park finishes a perfect circle to spend more time in what I consider as the best of all US parks. Hike, camp, backpack, swim, tube, kayak, canyoneer, climb, attend talks, eat and all within Zion Canyon, Kolob Canyons, Kolob Terrace and the main section of Zion National Park as Zion-Mt. Carmel Highways also called Utah Route 9.
Zion National Park Scenic Byway -Zion Canyon geology constructed itself to damage the land creating upward stone named long ago as Cathedral Mountain, Temple of Sinawa, Great White Throne, Great White Throne, Angels Landing, Zion Narrows, Weeping Rock, Emerald Pools, Virgin River, Altar of Sacrifice, Mukuntuweap, Hidden Canyon, Castle Dome, Three Patriarchs, Cable Mountain, Watchman, East Temple, West Temple and Checkerboard Mesa on the far East side of Zion National Park. This Zion guide gives insight to both well known, popular and rarely visited areas of Zion National Park and offers windshield trelers the best information there is on scenic byways of Zion Canyon, Kolob Canyons, Kolob Terrace and the main section of Zion National Park from Springdale to Mt. Carmel Junction treled on the Zion-Mt. Carmel Scenic Byway.
I am the webmaster, sole author and owner of this site ZionNational-Park and grew up in Mount Carmel Junction living in Long Valley of Southern Utah early and as an adult move to Orderville, Utah to trel nearby spending vast amounts of time in Southern Utah, Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, Grand Canyon, Cedar Breaks National Monument, Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park to step over the state line to Arizona to enjoy Grand Canyon National Park - North Rim. All I he accumulated in my lifetime including ZionNational-Park dot com goes to only my birthed children who are loved by me more than all.
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