Bryce Canyon NP

From Zion we went directly to Bryce Canyon NP. The elevation at Zion was around 3,800 feet at the base of the canyon. At Bryce, unless you climb down into the canyon, you are at over 8,000 feet at the rim. We arrived shortly before noon and it was partly cloudy, a bit of a breeze with a temperature of 45 degrees and intermittent, very light snow flurries! Big change.

Bryce is not a very big park and the big attraction is an area called the Amphitheater that contains the largest collection of hoodoos in the area. A hoodoo is a pillar of stone (relatively soft sandstone) that has been eroded into odd shapes. You can view the hoodoos from various angles along the rim in about an hour and that is what we did.



If you look closely in to the shadows of the pillars you can see snowflakes

Panorama of the whole amphitheater.

Ann bundled up.

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