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One place among the collection of National Parks and National Monuments shines above all the others: Zion National Park is the crowning glory of the West!

Zion National Park is often said to be the most beautiful place in America.Spectacular is uttered time and time again as eyes are raised to view the vast monoliths of the best of Utah's National Parks. Zion Park unveils its eight layers of sandstone, displaying what has taken two hundred million years to carve and mold. This corner of Southern Utah is a masterpiece of towering cliffs, deep red canyons, mesas, buttes, and massive monoliths. Zion's fame is her incredible geology, hiking and scenic drives. Zion National Park portrays the type of beauty that stops us in our tracks, gaping in awe. Nature's extreme forces and the violence of mother nature have created perfection in the heart of Utah's Color Country. The years of molding and carving by ice, water and snow have produced wondrous creations protected by the National Park Service (NPS) and kept pristine for all the world to enjoy.

A glance at a Southern Utah Map will reveal a tourist paradise and in the center is Mount Carmel Junction located at the east side of Zion Park and yet only 60 miles from Bryce Canyon National Park, 45 miles from Cedar Breaks National Monument, 1 mile from the Grand Staircase National Monument, 95 miles from the Grand Canyon National Park and 11 miles from the Coral Pink Sand Dunes.

The enchantment of nature is abundant in Utah, where nearly eighty-percent of the state is land administered for public use by federal and state agencies. Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon, Cedar Breaks and the Grand Staircase share a common sanctuary in the vast desert of Southern Utah. To their audience they reveal spellbinding allure, capturing the hearts of the world's visitors. Millions of people visit Utah's National Parks and Monuments each year where they experience the medley of stone grandeur that fierce torrents of water and weather have carved. In Zion National Park famous landmarks are found such as Angels Landing, Temple of Sinawava and the Great White Throne, all living up to their name sake.