Zion National Park - USA
Zion National Park is located in the southwestern corner of Utah, United States, where the Colorado Plateau, Great Basin and Mojave Desert regions meet. This results in a unique and varied geography that covers desert, woodlands and the many buttes, canyons, slot canyons and arches that the park is famous for. These landscapes play host to a large number of unique flora and fauna. In parts this unique geology can be traced back to 150 million year old sedimentary deposits.
In 1909 what is now known as Zion canyon was established as the Mukuntuweap National Monument by President William Howard Taft, with the Kolob canyon established as a separate Zion National Monument in 1937. The park as it exists today was formed in 1956 from these two separate national monuments.
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