Bryce National Park
Bryce Canyon National Park is known for its dense amphitheaters of hoodoos, tall, irregular rock spires shaped by erosion over millions of years. The park sits at a high elevation, which gives it cooler temperatures, expansive views, and some of the darkest night skies in the United States.
Bryce National Park’s high elevation gives it cooler temperatures and unusually clear air, which makes colors appear especially sharp.
Bryce Canyon National Park is shaped as much by freezing temperatures as by erosion. Because Bryce sits at high elevation, it experiences hundreds of freeze–thaw cycles each year, where water seeps into cracks, freezes, expands, and slowly pries the rock apart. This process creates the park’s dense concentration of hoodoos, making Bryce one of the few places where cold, not heat, is the primary sculptor of the landscape.