Thousands of pounds of rock peeled off a canyon wall in southern Utah and landed on one of the nation’s most iconic trails in Bryce Canyon National Park. It happened around Dec. 8 on the Two Bridges ...

According to hiker reviews, these five national parks offer the best winter hiking, from desert canyons to snow-covered peaks ...

Last month, a friend and I headed north to the snow country of Southern Utah to have some winter adventures in the unique surroundings of Bryce Canyon National Park. The park was established in the ...

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The red spindly rock formations that make up the views at Bryce Canyon National Park are called hoodoos. Geologists say they were formed by erosion, but Kevin Poe, chief of interpretation at Bryce, ...

I fell in love with hoodoos while camping in Bryce Canyon. Water, ice and gravity had carved intriguing spires out of rocks of different hardness. The soft rock eroded away; the harder rock remained.

Here’s everything you need to know to plan a trip to Bryce Canyon National Park. Bryce Canyon may be grouped into what’s ...

The popular “turtle” formation at Bryce Canyon National Park has lost its head. A critical piece of the redrock hoodoo on the Mossy Cave Trail is missing; likely the result of erosion. The national ...

If you’re lucky enough to go hiking in the desert out west, you’ll likely be astonished by how much diversity there is in the terrain. Like most of us, I grew up thinking that the desert was just a ...

Navajo Loop Trail in Utah winds between narrow limestone walls “with views of towering Douglas-fir trees and the park’s most famous hoodoo: Thor’s hammer,” a National Park Service says. National Park ...