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  2. Zion Canyon - Wikipedia

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    Zion Canyon (also called Little Zion, Mukuntuweap, Mu-Loon'-Tu-Weap, and Straight Cañon; weap is Paiute for canyon) is a deep and narrow gorge in southwestern Utah, United States, carved by the North Fork of the Virgin River. Nearly the entire canyon is located within the western half of Zion National Park. [1]

  3. Zion National Park - Wikipedia

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    Zion National Park is a national park of the United States located in southwestern Utah near the town of Springdale.Located at the junction of the Colorado Plateau, Great Basin, and Mojave Desert regions, the park has a unique geography and a variety of life zones that allow for unusual plant and animal diversity.

  4. Geology of the Zion and Kolob canyons area - Wikipedia

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    About 1 million years ago, Zion Canyon was only about half as deep as it is today in the vicinity of Zion Lodge. [26] Assuming that erosion was fairly constant over the past 2 million years, then the upper half of Zion Canyon was carved between about 1 and 2 million years ago and only the upper half of the Great White Throne was exposed 1 ...

  5. Why Zion National Park is so special and what to know before ...

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    The closest airport with commercial service is St. George Regional Airport, but the closest major airport is Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, 176 miles away from Zion Canyon Visitor ...

  6. The Narrows (Zion National Park) - Wikipedia

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    His party traveled from Navajo Lake through the Narrows to Zion Canyon and Springdale on horseback. John Wesley Powell had traversed the nearby Parunaweap Canyon (the East Fork of the Virgin) earlier in the same year. [3] From when Zion became a National Park (1919), tourists were guided up the Narrows on horseback well into the 1960s.

  7. Historical buildings and structures of Zion National Park

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    The Zion-Mount Carmel Highway was built to link Zion with Grand Canyon National Park. Completed in 1930, the road features a 5,613-foot (1,711 m) tunnel in the wall of Pine Creek Canyon. [8] The road enables visitors to do a loop tour of Grand Canyon, Zion, Bryce Canyon National Park and Cedar Breaks National Monument.

  8. Angels Landing - Wikipedia

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    Angels Landing, known previously as the Temple of Aeolus, is a 1,488-foot (454 m) tall rock formation [2] in Zion National Park in southwestern Utah, United States.A renowned trail cut into solid rock in 1926 leads to the top of Angels Landing and provides panoramic views of Zion Canyon.

  9. Zion National Park changing its schedules as temperatures ...

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    Zion Canyon Wilderness Desk: Open 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. and from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Kolob Canyons Wilderness Desk: 8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. Changes are posted on the park’s operating hours and seasons ...

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