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  2. Bryce Canyon National Park - Wikipedia

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    The park is located in southwestern Utah about 50 miles (80 km) northeast of and 1,000 feet (300 m) higher than Zion National Park. [6] [7]Bryce Canyon National Park lies within the Colorado Plateau geographic province of North America and straddles the southeastern edge of the Paunsaugunt Plateau west of Paunsaugunt Faults (Paunsaugunt is Paiute for "home of the beaver"). [8]

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    What is unique about Bryce Canyon? "Limited to the southwestern quarter of Utah, the Utah Prairie Dog has the most restricted range of all prairie dog species," according to the National Park Service.

  4. Geology of the Bryce Canyon area - Wikipedia

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    The Grand Staircase is a sequence of sedimentary rock layers, first defined in the 1870s, that stretch south for 100 miles (160 km) from Bryce Canyon National Park through Zion National Park and into the Grand Canyon. [1] Bryce Canyon is located within the Pink Cliffs, the highest and youngest rise within the Grand Staircase. [2] [3]

  5. Pink Cliffs - Wikipedia

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    One of the many hoodoo formations in the section of the Pink Cliffs that are located within Bryce Canyon National Park, July 2007. The cliffs form a large number of unique rock formations, many of which are protected by either the Bryce Canyon National Park or the Cedar Breaks National Monument.

  6. Bryce Canyon Natural History Association - Wikipedia

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    Bryce Canyon Natural History Association (BCNHA) is a non-profit organization created in 1961 to aid the National Park Service at Bryce Canyon National Park, and the USDA Forest Service on the Dixie National Forest. A portion of the profits from all bookstore sales are donated to these public land units.

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    Thousands of pounds of rock peeled off a canyon wall in southern Utah and landed on one of the nation’s most iconic trails in Bryce Canyon National Park.. It happened around Dec. 8 on the Two ...

  8. Grand Staircase - Wikipedia

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    In fact the youngest formation seen in the Zion area is the oldest exposed formation in Bryce Canyon – the Dakota Sandstone. There are, however, shared rock units between all three, creating a super-sequence of formations that geologists call the Grand Staircase. Bryce Canyon's formations are the youngest known units in the Grand Staircase.

  9. Bryce Canyon National Park Scenic Trails Historic District

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    Early trail construction focused on the area adjacent to the Bryce Canyon Lodge between Sunrise Point and Sunset Point. It is believed that what is now the Navajo Loop Trail incorporates sections from 1917, immediately after the National Park Service took over administration from the U.S. Forest Service, and may include some earlier USFS-built paths.