Not really a canyon, but rather a huge natural amphitheater, Bryce Canyon is the result of millions of years of wind, water and ice erosion, and more proof of Mother Nature’s incredible design talent.
Bryce Canyon was named after the Mormon Pioneer Ebenezer Bryce and became a national park in 1924, when the increasing number of tourists and the excessive logging in the area started to threaten the canyon’s fragile features. Bryce Canyon started gaining popularity as a tourist attraction in the early 1900s, when its scenic sights were described in magazines and newspapers all across the country, but the lack of accommodation and the difficult access to the area, held tourists back from traveling here. But by the early 1920s the Union Pacific Railroad announced it was interested in expanding its rail system in the area and modest accommodations were being built, which sparked tourists’ interest.
Nowadays Bryce Canyon is one of the most popular attractions in Utah and the USA, especially for landscape photographers, who can capture some incredible sunrise and sunset moments. There are also eight marked hiking trails that can be completed in less than a day, and two overnight hiking trails. Some people just like to go up on the canyon’s rim and just stare at the beauty of the limestone columns, called hoodoos. They are the result of millions of years of ice and water erosion, but looking at them in the sunlight and thinking about how long it took nature to create them, you can’t help but feel that it was worth it.
The air over Bryce Canyon is so clear that, on most days, people can see Navajo Mountain, over 90 miles away, in the state of Arizona. Stargazers come here often to look at the star-filled sky. Whilst in most places one can see under 2,000 stars with the naked eye, due to the 7.4 magnitude night sky, stargazers can see around 7,400 stars.
Although it receives considerably less visitors than the much more famous Grand Canyon and Zion Canyon, Bryce Canyon offers phenomenal sights and is more than worth the trip.
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