Millions of years before human existence, much less monument designations, a colossal stairway laid its foundation on the northern rim of the Grand Canyon. Over time, tectonic shift exposed the ...

♪ Only 80 miles, or 130 kilometers' drive from Bryce, Zion National Park is at a lower elevation, about halfway down the Grand Staircase. If you picture the Grand Staircase as the big layer cake ...

A sketch of Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument as seen in the Bureau of Land Management's ... it climbs also through time — 245 million years captured in the layers of rock.

Visit Zion National Park in Utah and your gaze is immediately lifted upward to the pink, buff, and orange sandstone canyon ...

Ten years ago my wife and I searched across southern Utah for property to live on part-time after we retired. We have traveled in Utah since 1972 — during vacations and for my fieldwork as a ...

The Utah national monument is huge — 1.9 million acres — and contains many sights — arches, waterfalls, slot canyons — and many of the rock layers date to the time of the dinosaurs.

Grand Staircase-Escalante used to be 3,000 square miles of protected land, but was cut to 1,655 square miles, nearly in half, by the Trump Administration in 2017 for oil and gas drilling.

Frenchman mountain dolostone: 500 million-year-old grand canyon rock layer finally gets a name. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 05 ...