ZION NATIONAL PARK TOURS and Kolob Canyons
Find Breathtaking Sanctuary in Zion National Park
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Zion National Park offers steep solid sandstone walls, overhanging cliffs, rock formations, many trails, and a wide array of waterfalls within spectacular canyons. The cliffs of Zion stand resolute and majestic throughout it's 229 square miles (593 km). Zion's colors and diversity can stop you in your tracks. Slot canyons have been sculptured by the forces of water that is not always evident or visible. Emerald growths of various plants are summoned by trickling waterfalls and dripping springs.
It is ironic that water has created most of Zion and all the other National Parks, National Monuments, and unusual state parks on the Colorado Plateau. Today the Southwest United States is mostly a very dry desert, with moisture averaging only about 5" to 25" per year, depending on location and elevation. Most of the current water in Zion flows down the Virgin River into the man made Lake Mead and the Colorado River below the Grand Canyon.
Zion sits on the western edge of the Colorado Plateau, a 180,000 square mile sandstone slab of rock that rises in places as high as 10,000 feet. It's many layers of multi-colored sandstones and limestone were once deposited on the floors of oceans as mud, line, sand and ash before they were lifted up by the movements the earth's tectonic plates.
Our tours through Zion National Park are unique and can take you to less crowded areas. The park is quite large, but most visitors are concentrated in one main canyon. We can help you enjoy the park more completely and at a leisurely pace.
Transportation within the park is now limited to the busses provided by the park service, unless you have reservations at Zion Lodge.