Zion National Park in southwest Utah is a stunning landscape of towering sandstone cliffs, narrow canyons, and sweeping ...

Utah’s “Mighty 5” national parks have long been celebrated as outdoor dreamscapes, and rightly so. With dramatic landscapes, ...

The time has come for Zion National Park to implement its own timed entry system to benefit the visitors, the park’s ...

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Since Nov. 19, 1919, the day Zion became a National Park, it has exploded in popularity. What was once a home for Native Americans now hosts over 4.5 million visitors from around the world every year.

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The National Park Service finally lowered the gates Friday on one of its most popular and crowded destinations when it shut down southern Utah’s Zion National Park in the wake of a formal plea from ...

The state of Utah and the U.S. Department of the Interior held a closed-door meeting to discuss Utah's public lands, ...

Utah's parks are getting hotter — not just in temperature but in popularity. Zion National Park, formerly the nation's third-most-popular park and now the second, broke records with 5 million visitors ...

ZION NATIONAL PARK, Utah — As Julio Lopez waded through nearly knee-deep mud and opened the hood of his 2013 Buick sedan, he realized the damage was even worse than he initially thought. “It’s a total ...

Southern Utah was hit with heavy rain on Tuesday, causing officials to close Zion National Park as a flash flood sent water and mud crashing through two of its entrances. The park saw more than an ...