Bryce Canyon National Park Bryce Canyon National Park Map showing the locale of Bryce Canyon National Park Map showing the locale of Bryce Canyon National Park Website Bryce Canyon National Park Bryce Canyon National Park / bra s/ is a National Park positioned in southwestern Utah in the United States.
The primary feature of the park is Bryce Canyon, which despite its name, is not a canyon, but a compilation of enormous natural amphitheaters along the easterly side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau.
Bryce sits at a much higher altitude than close-by Zion National Park.
The Bryce Canyon region was settled by Mormon pioneers in the 1850s and was titled after Ebenezer Bryce, who homesteaded in the region in 1874. The region around Bryce Canyon became a National Monument in 1923 and was designated as a National Park in 1928.
The park covers 35,835 acres (55.992 sq mi; 14,502 ha; 145.02 km2) and receives substantially severaler 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.
Bryce Canyon National Park is positioned in southwestern Utah about 50 miles (80 km) northeast of and 1,000 feet (300 m) higher than Zion National Park. The weather in Bryce Canyon is therefore cooler, and the park receives more precipitation: a total of 15 to 18 inches (380 to 460 mm) per year. Yearly temperatures vary from an average minimum of 9 F ( 13 C) in January to an average maximum of 83 F (28 C) in July, but extreme temperatures can range from 30 to 97 F ( 34 to 36 C). The record high temperature in the park was 98 F (37 C) on July 14, 2002.
The nationwide park lies inside the Colorado Plateau geographic province of North America and straddles the southeastern edge of the Paunsaugunt Plateau west of the Paunsaugunt Fault (Paunsaugunt is Paiute for "home of the beaver"). Park visitors arrive from the plateau part of the park and look over the plateau's edge toward a valley including the fault and the Paria River just beyond it (Paria is Paiute for "muddy or elk water").
Bryce Canyon was not formed from erosion initiated from a central stream, meaning it technically is not a canyon.
A series of amphitheaters extends more than 20 miles (30 km) north-to-south inside the park. The biggest is Bryce Amphitheater, which is 12 miles (19 km) long, 3 miles (5 km) wide and 800 feet (240 m) deep. A close-by example of amphitheaters with hoodoos in the same formation but at a higher elevation, is in Cedar Breaks National Monument, which is 25 miles (40 km) to the west on the Markagunt Plateau. Rainbow Point, the highest part of the park at 9,105 feet (2,775 m), is at the end of the 18-mile (29 km) scenic drive. From there, Aquarius Plateau, Bryce Amphitheater, the Henry Mountains, the Vermilion Cliffs and the White Cliffs can be seen.
Yellow Creek, where it exits the park in the north-east section, is the lowest part of the park at 6,620 feet (2,020 m). Climate data for Bryce Canyon National Park command posts (1981 2010) Little is known about early human surroundingion in the Bryce Canyon area.
Archaeological surveys of Bryce Canyon National Park and the Paunsaugunt Plateau show that citizens have been in the region for at least 10,000 years.
The Paiute in the region developed a mythology encircling the hoodoos (pinnacles) in Bryce Canyon.
Ebenezer Bryce and his family lived in Bryce Canyon, in this cabin, here photographed c.
The Bryce family chose to live right below Bryce Canyon Amphitheater.
Bryce grazed his cattle inside what are now park borders, and assumedly thought that the amphitheaters were a "helluva place to lose a cow." He also assembled a road to the plateau to retrieve firewood and timber, and a canal to irrigate his crops and water his animals.
Other pioneer soon started to call the unusual place "Bryce's canyon", which was later formalized into Bryce Canyon.
Humphrey promoted the scenic wonders of Bryce Canyon's amphitheaters, and by 1918 nationally distributed articles also helped to spark interest. However, poor access to the remote region and the lack of accommodations kept visitation to a bare minimum.
In 1928 the region became a National Park.
A boss to have the region protected was soon started, and National Park Service Director Stephen Mather responded by proposing that Bryce Canyon be made into a state park.
Harding, who on June 8, 1923 declared Bryce Canyon a nationwide monument. National Monument to a National Park in order to establish Utah National Park. A process led by the Utah Parks Company for transferring ownership of private and state-held territory in the monument to the federal government started in 1923. The last of the territory in the proposed park's borders was sold to the federal government four years later, and on February 25, 1928, the retitled Bryce Canyon National Park was established. In 1931, President Herbert Hoover took in an adjoining region south of the park, and in 1942 an extra 635 acres (257 ha) was added. This brought the park's total region to the current figure of 35,835 acres (14,502 ha). Rim Road, the scenic drive that is still used today, was instead of in 1934 by the Civilian Conservation Corps.
Administration of the park was conducted from neighboring Zion National Park until 1956, when Bryce Canyon's first superintendent started work. The USS Bryce Canyon was titled for the park and served as a supply and repair ship in the U.S.
Bryce Canyon Natural History Association (BCNHA) was established in 1961. It runs the bookstore inside the park visitor center and is a non-profit organization created to aid the interpretive, educational and scientific activities of the National Park Service at Bryce Canyon National Park.
Responding to increased visitation and traffic congestion, the National Park Service implemented a voluntary, summer-only, in-park shuttle fitness in June 2000.
Main article: Geology of the Bryce Canyon region The Bryce Canyon region shows a record of deposition that spans from the last part of the Cretaceous reconstructionand the first half of the Cenozoic era.
The Dakota Sandstone and the Tropic Shale were deposited in the warm, shallow waters of the advancing and retreating Cretaceous Seaway (outcrops of these rocks are found just outside park borders). The colorful Claron Formation, from which the park's delicate hoodoos are carved, was laid down as sediments in a fitness of cool streams and lakes that existed from 63 to about 40 million years ago (from the Paleocene to the Eocene epochs).
The earliest members of this supersequence of modern units are exposed in the Grand Canyon, the intermediate ones in Zion National Park, and its youngest parts are laid bare in Bryce Canyon area.
There are three life zones in the park based on elevation: The lowest areas of the park are dominated by dwarf forests of pinyon pine and juniper with manzanita, serviceberry, and antelope bitterbrush in between.
Bryce Canyon National Park forms part of the surrounding of three wildlife species that are listed under the Endangered Species Act: the Utah prairie dog, the California condor, and the southwestern willow flycatcher. The Utah prairie dog is a threatened species that was reintroduced to the park for conservation, and the biggest protected populace is found inside the park's boundaries. Bryce Canyon has eight marked and maintained hiking trails that can be hiked in less than a day (round trip time, trailhead): Mossy Cave (one hour, State Route 12 northwest of Tropic), Rim Trail (5 6 hours, anywhere on rim), Bristlecone Loop (one hour, Rainbow Point), and Queens Garden (1 2 hours, Sunrise Point) are easy to moderate hikes.
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