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Show The Kanab Area Vacation Guide Souvenir Edition 10 Zion National Park is known for its majestic towering rock mountains which rise to aweinspiring heights. Zion is a lush green oasis, surrounded by By Dixie Brunner Christian with that lyrics sing, hymn Were marching to Zion, beautiful, beautiful Zion. Were marching upward to Zion, the beautiful Theres a well-know- n startling sentinels of stone. city of God. The song stands testament to the beauty that is Zion National Park. The incredible national treasure was established in 1909, when it was recognized and set aside by President William Howard Taft. Long before its official designation, Zion was a frequent home to Paiute indians. The first homesteader to hang his hat at Zion was Isaac Behunin in 1861. While life must have been rough for the pioneer, s Behunin was appreciative of the beauty of his never-the-les- surroundings. A man can worship God among these great cathedrals, said Behunin, as wrell as in any manmade Church-thi- s is Zion. The park located just 32 miles north of St. George, is rapidly becoming every western tourists must see. A iew of the switchback road ftom the Zion Canyon oerlook. Photo by Dae Newman. cliffs With sheer, milky-whit- e and pristine, curtained waterfalls, Zion is simply one of the most beautiful places in the world. While looking at the steep, stone mountains, you are struck with a feeling of something much older and more important than man. It took Mother Nature roughly 250 million years to create this scenic wonderland and the funny thing is. ..shes not done yet! Layer after layer of sedimentary rock makes up the surrounding mountains. With each layer deposited, the weight of the new material pushed dowm the old. The Virgin River also had a hand in the creation of that which we now call Zion. It sliced canyons as deep as 3,000 feet in some places, leaving buttes and mesas standing as lone islands rising up from the valley floor. Between Kanab and Zion National Park ifi the Best Western Thunderbird Motel, Restaurant & Golf Course at the Junction of Hwy Beauty and Service Away from the Traffic of Town and the Parks! All major credit cards accepted www.bwthunderbird.com 9& 9 |