National Parks - Utah
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Arches National Park
Outstanding geological features include giant arches, pinnacles, pedestals, and windows, the products of erosion.Bryce Canyon National Park
Erosion has carved colorful and unusual formations of limestone, mudstone, and sandstone from the eastern edge of the Paunsaugunt Plateau in southern Utah.Canyonlands National Park
Rocks, spires, and mesas dominate the heart of the Colorado Plateau cut by canyons of the Green and Colorado rivers.Capitol Reef National Park
Features the Waterpocket Fold, a 70-mile uplift of sandstone cliffs with highly colored sedimentary rock formations.Cedar Breaks National Monument
Millions of years of sedimentation, uplift and erosion have created a deep canyon of rock walls, fins, spires, and columns, that spans three miles, and is over 2,000 feet deep.Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
Lake Powell stretches for 186 miles along the old Colorado River channel, offering opportunities for water-based and backcountry recreation.Golden Spike National Historic Site
Site of the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the U.S., where the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads met in 1869.Natural Bridges National Monument
Features the world's second and third largest natural bridges cut from Permian Age Cedar Mesa sandstone, as well as more than 200 archeological sites.Rainbow Bridge National Monument
Features the world's largest natural bridge, with a span rising 290 feet above the floor of Bridge Canyon. Public access is by boat across Lake Powell.Timpanogos Cave National Monument
Colorful limestone cavern on the side of Mount Timpanogos is noted for helictites -- water-created formations that grow in all directions and shapes.Zion National Park
Park includes sheer, vividly-colored cliffs and deep canyons, one of the last mostly free-flowing river systems on the Colorado Plateau, and the richest diversity of plants in Utah.
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