Zion National Park is a very special place in southeastern Utah. It hosts the most diverse collection of native plants in Utah, almost 800 different species. Parts of the park were inhabited by Native Americans over 1000 years ago. The ruins of their dwellings are still visible today.

The first sights you will notice about the park are the towering cliffs and monoliths of sedimentary rock. The cliffs are many different colors. These features are especially beautiful in Zion Canyon. Here they form some of the tallest sandstone cliffs in the world, rising over 700 meters above the canyon floor. These sandstones are over 3,000 meters in thickness and record about 240 million years of deposition.