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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.
This part of Zion National Park is accessed by a park road about 20 miles south of Cedar City, Utah, off Interstate 15. Approximately 190 to 136 million years ago [ 13 ] in the Jurassic the Colorado Plateau area's climate increasingly became arid until 150,000 square miles (388,000 km 2 ) of western North America became a huge desert , not ...
Checkerboard Mesa is an iconic 6,520+ ft (1,990+ m) elevation Navajo Sandstone summit located in Zion National Park, in Kane County of southwest Utah, United States. [3] Checkerboard Mesa is situated immediately southwest of the park's east entrance, towering 900 feet (270 meters) above the Zion – Mount Carmel Highway.
The route's Interstate designation is not signed; rather, its entire length is signed as Alaska Route 3. It is a common misconception that the name "Parks Highway" comes from the road's proximity to the Denali state and national parks; it is in fact in honor of George Alexander Parks , governor of the Territory of Alaska from 1925 to 1933. [ 1 ]
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.
Exploring the Backcountry of Zion National Park: Off-Trail Routes (revised ed.). Springdale, UT: Zion Natural History Association. ISBN 0-915630-25-7. Gregory, Herbert E. (1950). Geology and Geography of the Zion Park Region Utah and Arizona. Washington DC: United States Department of the Interior, Geological Survey Professional Paper 220.
Paria Point is a 7,802-foot (2,378 m) elevation summit located in the Kolob Canyons section of Zion National Park, in Washington County, Utah, United States. [2] Tucupit Point is situated 0.5 mi (0.80 km) immediately north, and Beatty Point is 0.5 mi (0.80 km) immediately south, with 2,000-foot-deep finger canyons between each.
Northgate Peaks are located 10 miles (16 km) north-northwest of Springdale, Utah, in Zion National Park.The west peak at 7,267 ft-elevation (2,215 m) is the higher of the two peaks and the east peak is 7,159 ft (2,182 m).