Zion

National Park · Utah

Park Stats

Area146,597 acres

Canyon depthup to 800 m

Established1919

DEMUSGS 3DEP 10m

Notable Features

West Temple2,255 m
Angels Landing1,765 m
The Watchman2,021 m
Observation Point2,148 m
Virgin River bed1,235 m

Layer

Colored Hillshade

Elevation

Hillshade

Opacity 100%

About

The Virgin River drops ~15 m per km through Zion — one of the steepest gradients of any river in North America — and uses its sediment load to grind through 600 m of Navajo Sandstone. The slot-canyon sections (The Narrows, The Subway) are still actively eroding. Iron oxide weathering tints the upper sandstone the famous red-orange; lower beds are bleached white. Same Navajo formation appears at Bryce Canyon and Canyonlands — Zion shows the deepest cross-section.

10 m colormap + 10 m hillshade NW @ 45° · sources at /data