Bryce Canyon National Park

Bryce Canyon National Park, established in 1928 in southern Utah, is famous for the largest collection of "hoodoos" on Earth — slender, candy-colored rock spires that crowd its great natural amphitheaters in a forest of stone. Despite the name, it is not really a canyon but a series of bowls eroded into the edge of a high plateau, packed with thousands of pink, orange, and white pinnacles glowing in the sun.

The hoodoos form through a relentless cycle of freezing and thawing — water seeps into cracks, freezes, and pries the soft limestone apart, sculpting the spires and slowly marching the rim backward. At over 8,000 feet, Bryce is high and cool, often snow-dusted in winter, and its thin, clear air makes it one of the best places in the country for stargazing. It is the highest of southern Utah's string of red-rock parks.

• Utah
  The Beehive State, red rock and the Great Salt Lake located in
• The Colorado Plateau
  The high red-rock heart of the Southwest part of
• Grand Staircase-Escalante
  A giant geologic staircase of cliffs in southern Utah related