By: Eva Mahoney

Region: Southwest State: Utah Capital: Salt Lake City Longitude: °W Latitude: °N

Great White Throne Location is : Southeast - Is a huge mass of stone rising nearly half a mile from the canyon floor. - may reflect purple colors at one minute and pale yellow the next Kolob arch ●287.4 wide ● one of longest spanning natural free stand arches In world Zion canyon ●2 to 3,000 feet wall towers ● main feature of the park 6744 long

Native Americans (also known as Anasazi) ●American Indians lived in Zion 2,000 Years ago ●ancestral puebloans ●Brigham Young and his Mormon followers were the first European Americans in the area in the 1840’s ●The park was preserved for 81 years ●2010 2,825,505 visited park

culture Anasazi and the settlers Brigham young believed in respecting the land. They both believed the land should be preserved.

These are the most important waterways in the park. They are Virgin river and weeping rock.

Waterways Virgin river -is about 162 miles long -cuts through the sandstone -is formed by confluence of East Fork Weeping rock Spring water seeping out the rock 100 feet over head ●Lakes nearly 1,000 years travel through sandstone above Archangel Cascades ●is formed by confluence of east fork ●is a series of cascades sheeting their way down the hard sandstone bedrock ●left fork of north creek continues to trickle it's way

●Layers of sandstone, mud and gravel ●Rock forms range in color ●Dark red and range to light purple and pink ●