Show J Bryce Canyon National tx a Th The e Y Great p f a Oat tt 1 Organ T In ir In- In T Bryce w s. s Canyon anyon A 4 If b. b j 1 I This b s O one ona of oC A I. series of or articles Article to appear In th er I 4 by tho Salt Lako Lake Advertising Club associated civic clubs club of n and central U Utah lh end and ch chambers of commerce port part of RI a R I program to point out UtAh's resource l a to so that bent people will Know Utah Better Be f By MARION C. C NELSON t On all aU the awesome sights eights on the face tace of ot tho the earth there is none more taking breath none breathtaking noue that moro more completely completed overwhelms an observer than Bryce Canyon This scenic wonder Is approximately twenty-five twenty miles from Panguitch and Is reached over splendid highways It has been said that It If a view of ot this great amphitheatre does not create a feeling akin to reverence nothing ever will While Bryce Canyon Is la lanot c not as extensive it is like Cedar Breaks intensified Crowded into acres feet elevation at the rim Bryce Canyon presents a such BUCU a spectacle that in recognition of ot its unusual scenic value it was c made a National Monument in 1923 and changed to a National Park Parkin in 1928 From Prom Cedar Breaks to Bryco Bryce Canyon one passes through seventy miles of ot most interesting and varied scenery as though to prepare the visitor for tor the climax at the rim of ot Bryce Crossing tho broad summit summit sum Bum mit of ot the Plateau the highway traverses fine coniferous t f forests that frequently open into charming parks and passes great areas arens covered with lava from Hancock Peak and tho the adjacent extinct volcanoes Navajo Lake a beautiful mountain tarn encircled by pines and a noted fishing water Is about eight miles beyond Midway i Soon pretty Duck Creek rising In full tull power from a fine spring and filled with trout parallels the tho highway for several miles then disappears disappears pears under tho the volcanic rock At the crossing of ot Strawberry Gulch a little used trail extends southward to Strawberry Point a famous observation ob point on the tho Pink Cliffs The main highway Is alternately surfaced with white pink and red rock a painted road in a land of ol color The road enters Red Canyon which Is la so BO like Bryce on a smaller scale that you may be excused for thinking you havo have alread already arrived A few tew miles more of ot travel through a pine dotted valley walled with red rock and you come coma to Bryce Canyon National Park At first you may be disappointed I f Hero Here Is Bryce Lodge but there seems seema to be nothing to Indicate the existence of ot a canyon Have p patience tience for tor you notice a footpath leading directly away from m the tho lodge I A short walk and nd there bursts upon you one of ot the most brilliant sights ever beheld by man The thing about Bryce Canyon that will fascinate you that will keep you entranced for hours on end Is the weird sculpture of ot the rock formations that rise In countless numbers from the tho canyon depths and the tho brilliant colors with which they are tinted As you stand for the first time on the rim of ot this fairyland of realIty reality real real- ity looking downward your first thought Is that some Bomo giant hand scooped out a ft bowl In this Utah plateau and then studded It with these strange colored beautifully figures that rise from the canyon floor They scarcely seem real Perhaps the Indians who once roamed through this country county described described described de de- scribed It as well 1 as It can be done dung Their name for tor Bryce was bowl shaped canyon stand shaped canyon with filled with standing men up up like men But though these figures rise erect tr from m the canyon floor like men they resemble almost anything under the sun that your imagination can conceive Here In one place Is a whole city of ot spires their bases tinted with a deep rose their tips glittering In fn brilliant frost trost r f. Single forms torms are aro everywhere Here Is a statue of ot Queen Victoria there another of ot the Pope the Pope the resemblances so amazing that you you can hardly believe your eyes A few of ot the tho established d names In Bryce BrYco may give YOl you an Idea of ot the variety of or the forms the Organ the tho Sculptors Sculptor's s Studio the Queens Queen's Castle Tower Bridge DrIdge Moon Temple Bluebeards Bluebeard's Cas Castle Ue But the changing colors of ot Bryco Bryce are almost moro mol amazing than its figures Lighted by the morning sun the tho canyon looks like a bowl of ot glowing embers dec decorated rated with laco Taco and filigree eo work It Is no wonder th that t the tho Indians referred to Bryce Bryco as ns the canyon of fire firo At midday the canyon has lost its sparkle a and d seems to sleep in tho sun light At sunset the colors are brought out in fn soft hues and by moonlight moonlight moon moon- light the tho deep shadows set off the brilliant white spires making th them m almost seem to glow with a white light No visit to Bryce is complete until you have havo seen It from the tho trails that wind through the depths of ot the tho canyon canyon Like hike the Grand Canyon of ot the tho Colorado the view from the tho rim serves only to stimulate the Imagination and a descent to the canyon floor loor is tho the only means by which a traveler may fully tully appreciate the versatility of ot natures nature's art displayed there Hero too as at Grand Canyon no observer can look at nt tho the great amphitheatre spread out bel below w him sigh and say to himself him him- self well self well now Ive I've seen Been Bryce Canyon for the moving sun constantly constant constant- ly sets a new stage with new scenery so different that you may spend days a at t the tho canyon canon always being surprised With Ith now new quirks of ot color and form torm |