Your Utah holiday throws up oodles of magic, mystery, and surrealism at the Bryce Canyon National Park. Crimson-colored hoodoos cluster and tower up into the vast and brilliant blue of the skies. These spire-like rock formations were carved by the elements over millions of years. They are still shifting shapes. But according to the Paiute people, these hoodoos are the Towhenan-ung-wa, or the Legend People, who were punished by the coyote God and turned to stone.
They still stand huddled by the thousands at the Bryce Canyon and from a distance resemble a forest of stone. The Bryce Canyon National Park is best explored and experienced on foot. The Bryce Amphitheater is a depression filled with hoodoos below the Rim Trail. Be here at sunrise to see the sun rays slowly light up and reveal the hoodoos or during sunset to see the light fade away gradually, leaving the hoodoos in darkness, towering and ominous like the Towhenan-ung-wa. The Bryce Canyon is beautiful in the otherworldly kind, and the magic in the air is palpable!