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English: Official Bryce Canyon National Park map from the brochure, showing the visitor center, trails, campgrounds, and roads. Date: 2 July 2016: Source:
The Grand Staircase is a sequence of sedimentary rock layers, first defined in the 1870s, that stretch south for 100 miles (160 km) from Bryce Canyon National Park through Zion National Park and into the Grand Canyon. [1] Bryce Canyon is located within the Pink Cliffs, the highest and youngest rise within the Grand Staircase. [2] [3]
The park is located in southwestern Utah about 50 miles (80 km) northeast of and 1,000 feet (300 m) higher than Zion National Park. [6] [7]Bryce Canyon National Park lies within the Colorado Plateau geographic province of North America and straddles the southeastern edge of the Paunsaugunt Plateau west of Paunsaugunt Faults (Paunsaugunt is Paiute for "home of the beaver"). [8]
In fact the youngest formation seen in the Zion area is the oldest exposed formation in Bryce Canyon – the Dakota Sandstone. There are, however, shared rock units between all three, creating a super-sequence of formations that geologists call the Grand Staircase. Bryce Canyon's formations are the youngest known units in the Grand Staircase.
Grand Canyon Lookout tower near ... Lake Mead [9] 1,173 feet (358 m) 7,992 feet (2,436 m) 21 Bryce Canyon: Rainbow Point ... zoomable topographic maps of the entire USA.
The Grand Staircase is an immense sequence of sedimentary rock layers that stretch south from Bryce Canyon National Park through Zion National Park and into the Grand Canyon. Within this sequence, the oldest exposed formation in the Zion and Kolob canyons area is the youngest exposed formation in the Grand Canyon—the Kaibab limestone. [2]
The Utah Parks Company, a subsidiary of the Union Pacific Railroad, acquired Wylie Camp in 1923, and offered ten-day rail/bus tours to Zion, nearby Bryce Canyon, the Kaibab Plateau, and the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. [40] The Zion Lodge complex was built in 1925 at the site of the Wylie tent camp. [31]
The Grand Staircase: (A) Grand Canyon, (B) Chocolate Cliffs, (C) Vermilion Cliffs, (D) White Cliffs, (E) Zion Canyon, (F) Gray Cliffs, (G) Pink Cliffs, and (H) Bryce Canyon. The Pink Cliffs [1] are a series of highly dissected cliffs on the Colorado Plateau in Garfield, Iron, and Kane counties in southwestern Utah, United States.