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BRYCE CANYON NATIONAL
PARK, UTAH |
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| The entrance to the park, Bryce Canyon
National Park, Utah. |
| Bryce Canyon is a small national park in southwestern Utah. Named after
the Mormon Pioneer Ebenezer Bryce, Bryce Canyon became a national park in 1924. Bryce
Canyon, famous for its worldly unique geology, consists of a series of horseshoe-shaped
amphitheaters carved from the eastern edge of the Paunsaugunt Plateau in southern Utah.
The erosional force of frost-wedging and the dissolving power of rainwater have shaped the
colorful limestone rock of the Claron Formation (the fund of an acient lake) into bizarre
shapes including slot canyons, windows, fins, and spires called "hoodoos". Bryce
Canyon is known for its incredible geology and sweeping vistas, but equally impressive are
the animals that make the uplifted plateaus of Utah such a unique environment. Bryce
Canyon is home to 59 species of mammals, 175 different species of birds have been
documented to frequent Bryce Canyon National Park, 11 species of reptiles and four species
of amphibians can be found at Bryce, forty-five species of butterflies and moths have been
identified, so it is very likely that the park have well over 1,000 different species of
insects overall. Surrounded by deserts, Bryce's highland plateau gets much more rain than
the lowlands below and stays cooler during hot summers. The relatively lush ecosystems
that result are like fertile islands towering above a vast arid landscape. Bryce Canyon's
climate is the unique combination of mountain and desert environments. This means
that not only can almost any kind of weather happen, but it can change very rapidly. The
average temperatures in January are 4°C to -13°C, in July are 30°C to 8°C. The
average precipitation is 56 mm in August to 15 mm in June. Bryce Canyon is a great place
to walk in a fantastic landscape. |
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BOOKS ABOUT BRYCE CANYON NP AND UTAH:
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| Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon National
Park, Utah. |
 
| Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon National
Park, Utah. |
| Sunrise Point, Bryce Canyon National Park,
Utah. |
 
| Sunrise Point, Bryce Canyon National Park,
Utah. |
 
| Farview Point, Bryce Canyon National Park,
Utah. |
Sunset Point, Bryce Canyon National Park,
Utah. |
| Zion-Bryce National Parks area map. |
| Map of the central area of Bryce Canyon
National Park, Utah. |
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Itinerary across UTAH-ARIZONA PARKS |
Diario di viaggio:
itinerario nei parchi di Arizona e Utah |
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| ARIZONA |
GRAND CANYON National Park |
METEOR CRATER |
PETRIFIED FOREST National Park |
CANYON DE CHELLY National Monument |
LAKE POWELL |
| CALIFORNIA |
SAN FRANCISCO |
LOS ANGELES |
REDWOOD NATIONAL PARK |
FORT ROSS STATE HISTORIC PARK |
SPANISH MISSIONS of CALIFORNIA:
Carmel, Monterey, San Juan Bautista |
| MONTANA |
LAKE MC DONALD, LOGAN PASS Glacier National
Park |
LAKE ST. MARY Glacier National Park |
MANY GLACIER Glacier National Park |
| NEVADA |
LAS VEGAS |
| OREGON |
COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE Multnomah Falls |
OREGON COAST NORTH Ecola State Park,
Cannon Beach, Three Capes, Cape Foulweather, Heceta Head |
OREGON COAST CENTRAL Oregon Dunes,
Cape Arago, Bandon |
OREGON COAST SOUTH Cape Blanco, Cape
Sebastian |
OREGON COAST SOUTH Samuel Boardman
State Park and Scenic Corridor |
| UTAH |
MONUMENT VALLEY Navajo Tribal Park |
GOOSENECKS of the San Juan River State
Park |
NATURAL BRIDGES National Monument |
CANYONLANDS THE NEEDLES
National Park |
NEWSPAPER ROCK State Historical Monument |
ARCHES National Park |
DEAD HORSE POINT State Park |
CANYONLANDS ISLAND IN THE SKY National
Park |
CAPITOL REEF National Park |
BRYCE CANYON National Park |
BRYCE CANYON National Park TRAIL |
GROSVENOR ARCH |
RED CANYON |
ZION National Park |
 SALT LAKE
CITY |
| WASHINGTON |
SEATTLE |
| WYOMING |
YELLOWSTONE National Park
Norris Geyser Basin, Mammoth Hot Springs |
YELLOWSTONE National
Park Yellowstone River Canyon, Falls, Hayden Valley, Old
Faithful |
GRAND TETON National Park |
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COLUMBIA
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WHISTLER
and HOWE SOUND
MOUNT
ROBSON and FRASER RIVER VALLEY
YOHO NATIONAL PARK
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KOOTENAY
NATIONAL PARK
ALBERTA
JASPER
NATIONAL PARK
MALIGNE
LAKE Jasper National Park 
MALIGNE CANYON Jasper National Park 
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ATHABASCA FALLS Jasper National Park 
ATHABASCA GLACIER Jasper National Park
GOAT LICK, SUNWAPTA FALLS Jasper National Park
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MORAINE
LAKE Banff National Park
BOW
VALLEY Banff National Park
PEYTO LAKE and MISTAYA CANYON Banff National Park
WATERTON
LAKES NATIONAL PARK
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