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Bryce Canyon National Park

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Bryce Canyon National Park

The colours are so unique.

Bryce Canyon National Park

The landscape is carved up.

Bryce Canyon National Park

Hoodoos.

Bryce Canyon National Park
Bryce Canyon National Park
Bryce Canyon National Park

The combination of green forest and orange rock is really pretty.

Bryce Canyon National Park
Bryce Canyon National Park

The formation stretches along the side of a plateau for more than 30 kilometres.

Bryce Canyon National Park
Bryce Canyon National Park
Bryce Canyon National Park

This river carries water diverted by Mormon settlers to supply a nearby town.

Bryce Canyon National Park

It makes for a nice waterfall. Because it flows constantly now it is eroding much more quickly than the surrounding landscape.

Bryce Canyon National Park

Bryce Canyon is near the top of the Grand Staircase formation and is at a higher altitude than the places we'd visited previously. Because of this it was very cold at night! It's not really a canyon as there's only one side to it. It's more of a series of natural amphitheatres. 

The high altitude means that for about half of the year temperatures are below freezing for at least some of each day. This allows ice to form in cracks in the rock which splits the rock open forming pillars called hoodoos. There are more hoodoos in Bryce Canyon than anywhere else in the world. The formations coupled with the vibrant orange and white colours of the rock make for an awesome landscape. 

This time of year is monsoon season in this part of the country and we had the closest thing to rain we've seen. Unfortunately the cloud cover during our hike into the hoodoos dulled the photos a bit.