Bryce Canyon’s astonishing Hoodoos!

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Following our trip to Zion (see last week’s post), we headed to Bryce Canyon National Park, perhaps best known for its spectacular hoodoos! (National Park Service)

Hoodoos are tall, irregular rock towers formed naturally by wind and weather. Hoodoos can be found throughout the world, but Bryce Canyon is home to the greatest concentration of them anywhere.

Chemical weathering . . . occurs as acids in precipitation dissolve the calcium carbonate that holds the rocks together. As windows expand, the caprock collapses creating irregular rock spires called hoodoos. (National Park Service-Bryce Canyon)

I simply don’t have words to describe the otherworldly views in the Amphitheater, with its gigantic, magical stone pillars!!

Bryce’s iconic Amphitheater is a bowl-shaped area shaped by the drainage of seasonal rains and melting snow (not truly a canyon, as those are shaped by flowing rivers). (National Park Service- Bryce Canyon Amphitheater)

My daughter, her 15-month old daughter, and I enjoyed an incredible hike along the rim from Bryce Point to Inspiration Point👆🏼!

Above and below are two other breathtaking views from our hike along the rim!

An utterly wondrous landscape~!!

39 thoughts on “Bryce Canyon’s astonishing Hoodoos!”

  6. Absolutely stunning BJ ! Looks like another planet and reminds me of the city of Petra in Jordan. I would love to visit there. You and your young daughter certainly had a treat walking amongst these beauties.

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  7. The 15-month-old, alas, will remember nothing of Bryce’s fantastic geology. On the other hand, you from this year and I from 2024, will remember it vividly. On our trip two years ago, after we visited six national parks and various other scenic sites, Eve chose Bryce as her favorite place on the trip.

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  11. A 15-month-old on the Bryce Point to Inspiration Point rim – three generations out on that trail together is lovely. She won’t remember a second of it, but you and your daughter will, and at that age that’s most of the point. The Amphitheater does seem to defeat description; “I simply don’t have words” is about the most honest caption available. And I’d genuinely never known it isn’t technically a canyon because no river carved it. That clears up something I’d wondered about for years without ever bothering to look up.

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    • Thank you for sharing these very thoughtful words! I, too, was surprised to learn how the hoodoos were formed and that this Canyon is not the result of a river cutting through the rock, as Zion and the Grand Canyon are.

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