A series of amphitheaters extends more than 20 miles (30 km) north-to-south within the park.
This erosion resulted in delicate and colorful pinnacles called hoodoos that are up to 200 feet (60 m) high. Instead headward erosion has excavated large amphitheater-shaped features in the Cenozoic-aged rocks of the Paunsaugunt Plateau.
The edge of the Kaiparowits Plateau bounds the opposite side of the valley.īryce Canyon was not formed from erosion initiated from a central stream, meaning it technically is not a canyon. 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 ( Paria is Paiute for "muddy or elk water"). Geography īryce Canyon National Park lies within the Colorado Plateau geographic province of North America and straddles the southeastern edge of the Paunsaugunt Plateau west of the Paunsaugunt Faults ( Paunsaugunt is Paiute for "home of the beaver"). In 2018, Bryce Canyon received 2,679,478 recreational visitors, which was an increase of 107,794 visitors from the prior year. The park covers 35,835 acres (55.992 sq mi 14,502 ha 145.02 km 2) and receives substantially fewer visitors than Zion National Park (nearly 4.3 million in 2016) or Grand Canyon National Park (nearly 6 million in 2016), largely due to Bryce's more remote location. Harding in 1923 and was redesignated as a national park by Congress in 1928. The area around Bryce Canyon was originally designated as a national monument by President Warren G. 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. Bryce Canyon National Park is much smaller and sits at a much higher elevation than nearby Zion National Park. The red, orange, and white colors of the rocks provide spectacular views for park visitors. 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 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.
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