Western National Parks - Mount Rainier 2009 - October Photo

Zion National Park

Rising 2,700 feet above the canyon floor, the Watchman towers over this entrance to Zion. A feeling of calmness permeates from its great walls, especially in autumn when cottonwoods radiate with glowing yellow and the Virgin River slows its pace. Zion is ever much as its name implies, a resting place.