Bryce Canyon is a breath taking experience that can be found no where else in the world of brilliant colors and stone pillars referred to as HooDoos. Small by National Park standards, the 56.2 square miles of Bryce Canyon National Park occupy the eastern edge of the Paunsaugunt Plateau in south-central Utah. The park is not a canyon. Rather, it is a spectacular series of 14 huge amphitheaters, each of which is carved at least 1,000 feet into the chromatic limestone of the Paunsaugunt Plateau.

Paiute legends and place names illustrate how these aborigines viewed Bryce Canyon. In 1936 "the legend of Bryce Canyon" was explained to the Zion-Bryce Park Naturalist by Indian Dick, an elderly Paiute who then lived on the Kaibab Reservation:

Before there were any Indians, the Legend People, To-when-an-ung-wa, lived in that place. There were many of them. They were of many kinds—birds, animals, lizards, and such things—but they looked like people. They were not people; they had power to make themselves look that way. For some reason the Legend People in that place were bad; they did something that was not good, perhaps a fight, perhaps some stole something .... the tale is not clear at this point. Because they were bad, Coyote turned them all into rocks. You can see them in that place now, all turned into rocks; some standing in rows, some sitting down, some holding onto others. You can see their faces, with paint on them just as they were before they became rocks. The name of that place is Angka-ku-wass-a-wits. This is the story the people tell.

This is the story VVMT tells...
 

As you drive into Bryce, you start to get a taste of what HooDoo's are and how big and precarious they stand.

Once inside Bryce Canyon, we begin to see what all the commotion is about. We're struck with beauty that can't be found anywhere else in the world.

We're greeted by this cute little guy looking for hand-outs.

Bryce Canyon Video: Part 1 - ReMake

Bryce Canyon Video: Part 2 - ReMake

High Desert Plains - Empire Canyons - Light of Bryce Tour

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