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Bryce Canyon NP -- Bryce Point
Coordinates: 37.6037943, -112.156409 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About Bryce Point
From Bryce Point, one of the most scenic vistas of the full amphitheater and all its wonders amaze the visitor. Bryce Point is famous for its extraordinary sunrises. From here you can watch the tops of hoodoos set alight as if by fire from the first rays of the rising sun. Like fire, the orange light quickly spreads driving shadows from all but the deepest recesses of the amphitheater.

We are also reminded of the canyon's namesake, Ebenezer Bryce, who settled in the valley just below the canyon in 1870. Bryce was a shipbuilder who journeyed west with Brigham Young and the Mormon pioneers to assist in the construction of buildings essential to community life throughout the new land. Bryce lived here for only five years, but in that time, the canyon became known as Bryce's canyon to the people who knew him. Ebenezer Bryce was a pragmatic man, constructing roads to facilitate lumber transport and surveying the route for a 10-mile irrigation ditch from the top of the plateau to the valley that would later lead to larger, more permanent settlements. If he had romantic ideas concerning the land on which he struggled to survive, they are lost in history. All he is known to have said concerning this striking scene behind his home is, "It's a hell of a place to lose a cow."

The Peek-a-boo Loop Trail is a steep but spectacular hike past the Wall of Windows and the Three Wise Men. Along this trail you might spy Maguire Catchfly, Platy Penstemon and the Bryce Canyon Paintbrush, which grows only in Bryce Canyon. The 23-mile Under-the-Rim trail also descends from Bryce Point and heads south toward Rainbow Point through the less traveled backcountry of Bryce Canyon. Overnight travel in Bryce Canyon's Backcountry requires a permit which can only be obtained at the Visitor Center. From Bryce Point webpage

About Bryce Canyon National Park
There is no place like Bryce Canyon. Hoodoos (odd-shaped pillars of rock left standing from the forces of erosion) can be found on every continent, but here is the largest collection of hoodoos in the world! Descriptions fail. Photographs do not do it justice. An imagination of wonder will serve you when visiting Bryce Canyon National Park.

Birds are feathered vertebrates, most having flight capability, that reproduce from hard-shelled eggs. While everybody knows what a bird is, few think of Bryce Canyon when they think about birds. Nevertheless, 175 different species of birds have been documented to frequent Bryce Canyon National Park. Some are just passing through. Others stay for an entire season. Fewer still make this their year-round home. During any season, you can come to Bryce to see some of your favorite birds or perhaps spy a species you've never seen before. In this section of the website, you can learn more about some of the more common and interesting of Bryce Canyon's Birds. From Bryce Canyon National Park website
 * Peregrine Falcon
 * Steller's Jay
 * Raven
 * California Condor
 * Clark's Nutcracker
 * Osprey
 * Violet-Green Swallow

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