On Zion Canyon Road, on the right when traveling south.
Paiutes, pioneers, and early visitors applied religious names to many of this area's features.
The Great White Throne, Angels Landing, and the Temple of Sinawava are several well-known
examples.
The name "Zion," first used by a Mormon settler . . . — — Map (db m274934) HM
On Zion Canyon Scenic Drive, on the right when traveling north.
Named for three towering figures of the Old Testament, these sandstone cliffs hold court over Birch Creek Canyon and this section of the Virgin River. In 1916 Frederick Vining Fisher, a Methodist minister, gave the religious names to the peaks. . . . — — Map (db m254861) HM
On Zion Park Boulevard, on the left when traveling east.
In 1858, Nephi Johnson, one of Brigham Young's scouts, with a party of Indian guides arrived at the mouth of the canyon. Due to superstition, the Indians refused to enter the canyon. Nephi Johnson, alone, followed up river to the Narrows, a place . . . — — Map (db m74630) HM
On Zion Park Boulevard south of Lion Blvd, on the left when traveling north.
The Southern Paiute people utilized water from the Virgin River. They are believed to be the first people to dig ditches for irrigation in the area. In 1862, Brigham Young called 33 families to colonize this beautiful but formidable place. Near . . . — — Map (db m272703) HM
On Zion Park Boulevard (State Road 9) 2.5 miles east of Zion Canyon Road, on the right when traveling west.
In the 1920s this end of the canyon appeared to be a dead end, an impassable barrier to transportation. To highway engineers the toughest challenge was the cliff above. Their solution: a one-mile tunnel behind the cliff face.
When tunnel and . . . — — Map (db m272702) HM
On Zion Canyon Scenic Drive, on the right when traveling north.
Canyon-carving usually continues steadily, grain by grain. Occasionally Zion Canyon gets a massive face-lift. In 1995 a landslide at the base of the Sentinel, to your left, dammed the Virgin River and washed out a section of road.
On the night . . . — — Map (db m254860) HM
Near Zion-Mount Carmel Highway (Zion National Park Rd.) (Utah Route 9) 0.8 miles north of Zion National Park Entrance, on the left when traveling north.
He laid the foundation of the National Park Service, defining and establishing the policies under which its areas shall be developed and conserved unimpaired for future generations. There will never come an end to the good that he has done. — — Map (db m149308) HM
On Zion Canyon Scenic Drive, on the right when traveling north.
The present lodge is the latest in a series of efforts to settle the canyon, control the river, and provide comfortable facilities in the midst of this amazing scenery. On the site in 1916 William W. Wylie established Zion's first tourist camp - a . . . — — Map (db m254859) HM
On Zion Canyon Scenic Drive, on the right when traveling north.
Beneath the veneer of modern development are many layers of history. Across the river Isaac Behunin, the area's first pioneer settler, built his cabin in 1862. Human history of the site goes back much farther; Paiutes hunted and fished this part of . . . — — Map (db m254858) HM
On Zion Park Boulevard 0.2 miles east of Zion Canyon Scenic Drive, on the right when traveling east.
This 5,613- foot-long tunnel, the longest vehicular tunnel in the National Park System, was blasted through the towering sandstone cliffs above Pine Creek Canyon. Construction required extraordinary access through cliff-face galleries for blasting . . . — — Map (db m74632) HM
