(Springdale, UT) — New restrictions for campfires in Zion Canyon will be in place beginning tomorrow. The fire management officer for Zion National Park announced campfires and smoking near dry plants in that area will not be allowed until further notice. In a statement, officials said a fire had to […]
(Zion National Park, UT) — A teenage girl who was missing in Zion National Park has been rescued. The teen was reported missing Tuesday night after she’d hiked into Zion’s Narrows trail. Search and rescue teams found her early yesterday morning near Orderville Canyon. Park officials say she was cold […]
(Zion National Park, UT) — The Narrows is open again but the popular hiking trail in Zion National Park is no walk in the park. The Virgin River is flowing “high, fast, and cold,” according to park spokesman Jonathan Shafer. The Narrows was closed to hikers for more than two […]
(Springdale, UT) — A Zion National Park road is dealing with a major pothole, sort of. The park announced this week a small depression in Kolob Canyons Road that was found in March recently turned into a landslide measuring ten feet deep, 15 feet wide, and 70 feet long. Officials […]
(Zion National Park, UT) — A wildfire is burning in Zion National Park. The blaze the National Park Service has named the Cedar Hill Fire started sometime before 8 p.m. yesterday in the southwestern section of the park. Wildland firefighters from the Park Service, BLM, Color Country Interagency Fire Center, […]
(Zion National Park, UT) — Just ahead of the Memorial Day weekend, a popular trail in Zion National Park is being rerouted because of safety problems with a bridge over the Virgin River. Engineers with the National Park Service and the Federal Highway Administration determined that a bridge in the […]
(Zion National Park, UT) — Zion National Park’s summer shuttle schedule is back in force. The shuttles that carry visitors in and out of the main canyon started running for the season on Sunday. The first shuttle inside the park leaves the Zion Canyon Visitor Center at 6 a.m. and […]
(Zion National Park, UT) — A Canadian woman is recovering after being rescued from the Virgin River at Zion National Park. Just after 1 o’clock Friday afternoon a group flagged down a Park Ranger reporting the woman in the river. She was holding onto a log and calling for help, […]
(Zion National Park, UT) — Admission to Zion National Park and all of Utah’s Mighty Five this weekend. The National Park Service is kicking off National Park Week on Saturday with free admission to all national parks and national monuments that normally charge for admission. Parks, programs, and partners will […]
(Zion National Park, UT) — The latest storms hammering southwestern Utah this week have done a lot of damage to roads in Zion National Park, forcing some roads to close. The park was still open Thursday, but the northern Kolob Canyons section was closed to most activities. Zion Canyon Scenic […]
