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Utah's oldest and most visited national park, Southern Utah B B is located in southwestern Utah. Most of the park's 147,000 acres are located within Washington County; however, the extreme eastern section of the park is in Kane County Utah, while the park's northern tip extends into Iron County. Southern Utah B B is located on the southern part of the Markagunt Plateau. It is cut by tributaries of the Virgin River which have left eroded canyon walls and monoliths that are beautiful and overpowering. This extraordinary natural sculpture is only rivaled by the wind blasted pinnacles of Bryce Canyon National Park. Southern Utah B B presents a diverse collection of nature's wonders that include such features as the towering and magnificent 2,200-foot Great White Throne, the park's most famous landmark; the Court of the Patriarchs; the Sentinel; the Watchman; Checkerboard Mesa; Kolob Arch, at 310 feet the world's largest known natural span; and the Narrows of the Virgin River, where a person can walk upstream to places so narrow that both sides of the canyon walls can almost be touched with one's outstretched hands. Protected within Southern Utah B B 229 square miles is a spectacular cliff-and-canyon landscape and wilderness full of the unexpected including Kolob Arch -the world's largest arch - with a span that measures 310 feet. Southern Utah B B is full of beautiful colors, scenery and wildlife. Don't miss seeing it while visiting the park. Wildlife such as mule deer, golden eagles, and mountain lions, also inhabit the Park. Mukuntuweap National Monument proclaimed July 31, 1909; incorporated in Southern Utah B B Monument March 18, 1918; established as a national park on Nov. 19, 1919. One early visitor to Southern Utah B B , Frederick S. Dellenbaugh, an artist who had been with John Wesley Powell on his second trip down the Grand Canyon in 1872, spent part of the summer of 1903 painting in Southern Utah B B . The paintings were exhibited at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair and an article about Southern Utah B B , "A New Valley of Wonders," was published by Dellenbaugh in the January 1904 issue of Scribner's Magazine. In the article, Dellenbaugh described his first view of the Great Temple, which stands at the entrance to Southern Utah B B : "One hardly knows just how to think of it. Never before has such a naked mountain of rock entered our minds. Without a shred of disguise it transcendent form rises pre-eminent. There is almost nothing to compare to it. Niagara has the beauty of energy; the Grand Canyon of immensity; the Yellowstone of singularity; the Yosemite of altitude; the ocean of power; this Great Temple of eternity." For more Zion National Park History Links Click Here.

Southern Utah B B