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Show The Grandeur Of Bryce Canyon National Park Bryce Canyon National Park, 90 'miles east of Cedar City, Utah, is probably the most astonishing blend of exquisite beauty and grotesque grandeur that . the forces of erosion ero-sion have produced. It is called a canyon but in reality it is a giant amphitheatre or basin approx- ia.mtely two miles wide, about three ' miles long and 1,000 feet deep. Its rim is 3,000 feet above sea level. ' The softer parts of the high p'sitaau have been etched away, ! leaving an endless array of towers, spires, statues, minarets, fortresses, pagodas, castles and cathedrals standing in weird formations a ruined Oriental city overspread by gorgeous color. Newcomers are asked to close j their eyes and led by the guide, to wait until they are brought directly j to the rim- The sudden view is in-j in-j describable. One easterner tried. ; He took his hands from his face, - blinked, rubbed his eyes, looked again and then announced to the world at large: "It's a lie there ain't no such place-" The longer you look at Bryce the more you find- People have spent days gazing at it, and still have found new combinations of color, A bright watermelon-pink predominates, predom-inates, with alternate strata of deep yellows and white, together with tones of red, orange, buff ?nd purple. pur-ple. The play of sunlight and shadow shad-ow upon the huge iridescent bowl of lace and filigree work in stone constantly changes the colors and seems to give animation to realistic images. Near the rim of Bryce is the attractive at-tractive Union Pacific Lodge Center, Cen-ter, and in the pines nearby are the cozy guest lodges. Excellent scenic motorways connect Bryce Canyon with Cedar Breaks, another marvelously eroded and tinted basin, and with Zion National Park, Kai-bab Kai-bab Forest and Grand Canyon National Na-tional Park, all reached by five-day tours in comfortable Union Pacific motor busses operating regularly out i of Cedar City, the gateway to this I wonderland- |
