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# Bryce Canyon
- URL: https://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/photos/bryce-canyon/
- Published: 2013-05-30T08:40:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-01-06T09:34:39.000Z
- Description: Bryce Canyon National Park is a wonderful national park in southwestern Utah.
- Author: Ivar Hagendoorn
- Tags: Photography

Bryce Canyon National Park is a wonderful national park in southwestern Utah. Technically it is not a canyon but a collection of natural amphitheaters. The most distinctive feature of Bryce Canyon are the so called hoodoos: tall, thin spires of rock formed by natural erosion. I greatly enjoyed walking amidst the hoodoos. I've visited Bryce Canyon twice, in 2007 and in 2013\. These photos were all taken in the Bryce Amphitheater. I'd love to visit again and venture further into the park.

![Bryce Canyon](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/bryce-canyon-1.jpg)

Hoodoos in Bryce Canyon

![Tree in Bryce Canyon](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/bryce-canyon-2.jpg)

I love the shapes of these trees

Those trees look dead but they are still very much alive. I asked a ranger and if I remember correctly this is a Bristlecone Pine. They don't only grow in Great Basin National Park in Nevada and the White Mountains in California, but also in Bryce Canyon.

![Bryce Canyon](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/bryce-canyon-3.jpg)

![Hoodoos in Bryce Canyon](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/bryce-canyon-5.jpg)

The light can do miracles in Bryce Canyon

![Hoodoos in Bryce Canyon](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/bryce-canyon-6.jpg)

Once inside the amphitheatre every way you look is photogenic

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/bryce-canyon-7.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/bryce-canyon-10.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/bryce-canyon-9.jpg)

Left: I've included some people to add some perspective. Those hoodoos are tall.

![Hoodoos in Bryce Canyon](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/bryce-canyon-8.jpg)

Why I love Bryce Canyon

![Looking down into a canyon filled with hoodoos in Bryce Canyon](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/bryce-canyon-11.jpg)

Looking down from the rim of the amphitheater

![Bryce Canyon](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/bryce-canyon-12.jpg)

Looking straight ahead to the wall of the amphitheater

![Looking down into a canyon filled with hoodoos in Bryce Canyon](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/bryce-canyon-13.jpg)

Looking down into a canyon filled with hoodoos in Bryce Canyon

![Bryce Canyon](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/bryce-canyon-14.jpg)

The descent into the Bryce Amphitheater

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/bryce-canyon-15.jpg)

A dead tree in Bryce Canyon

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