Zion National Park

The East Temple

Zion National Park is my favorite place in the U.S. I worked there as a seasonal ranger in 1990 and 1991 and I try to visit there as often as possible. It's a geologic wonderland of Navajo red sandstone and the effects of water and wind erosion. I'll let the pictures tell the rest.

Mighty canyon walls

Towering rock formations

Rock within sand

Sand within rock

The saddle portion is an itinerant waterfall

A huge Ponderosa pine soaking in the late September sun

View from the itinerant waterfall. You can see the dry wash below

Slot canyons everywhere

Iron deposits on top of sandstone

Found this hiking up a drainage. Hope it isn't a headstone

Wind and water shape the rock

Oak Creek Dorm. My humble abode for two seasons