Bryce Canyon Queens Garden from Sunrise Point 3
by Dan Hartford
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Bryce Canyon Queens Garden from Sunrise Point 3
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Dan Hartford
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Sunrise Point is one of the main viewing areas of the Bryce Amphitheater of Bryce Canyon National Park located in southwestern Utah. The major feature of the park is Bryce Canyon, which despite its name, is not a canyon but a collection of giant natural amphitheaters along the eastern side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed by frost weathering and stream erosion of the river and lake bed sedimentary rocks. The red, orange, and white colors of the rocks provide spectacular views for park visitors. Bryce varies from 8,000 to 9,000 feet above sea level which makes the sky a deep rich blue and often has crystal clear air.
The Bryce Canyon area was settled by Mormon pioneers in the 1850s and was named after Ebenezer Bryce, who homesteaded in the area in 1874. The area around Bryce Canyon became a National Monument in 1923 and was designated as a National Park in 1928. The park covers 35,835 acres (55.99 sq mi; 145.02 km2).
The national park lies within the Colorado Plateau geographic province of North America and straddles the southeastern edge of the Paunsagunt Plateau west of the Paunsagunt Fault . Park visitors arrive from the plateau part of the park and look over the plateau's edge toward a valley containing the fault and the Paria River just beyond it. The edge of the Kaiparowits Plateau bounds the opposite side of the valley.
Bryce Canyon was not formed from erosion initiated from a central stream, meaning it technically is not a canyon. Instead erosion has excavated large amphitheater-shaped features in the Cenozoic-aged rocks of the Plateau. This erosion exposed delicate and colorful pinnacles called hoodoos that are up to 200 feet high. A series of amphitheaters extends more than 20 miles within the park. The largest is Bryce Amphitheater, which is 12 miles long, 3 miles wide and 800 feet deep.
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March 20th, 2013
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