Trails lead to the fantastically eroded formations (Union Pacific Railroad photo)
Motorists park on overlook for view of Cedar Breaks
Garage service, including storage and repairs, is provided near Bryce Lodge during the main season. A regular service station, located on the highway near the lodge, furnishes gasoline, oil, tires, and batteries from approximately May 1 to October 30. Garages and service stations outside the park usually operate throughout the year.
A registered nurse is on duty at the lodge when it is in operation.
Cedar Breaks National Monument
Twenty miles east of Cedar City, within the Dixie National Forest, where the high plateau breaks away to the west, is a great amphitheater called Cedar Breaks, in the Pink Cliffs formation. The more spectacular part of the formation was established as a national monument by proclamation of President Franklin D. Roosevelt on August 22, 1933, and placed under the administration of the National Park Service. The monument embraces an area of 6,172.20 acres of federally owned land.
While Cedar Breaks is cut from the same geological formation as Bryce Canyon, there is a marked difference between these two scenic areas. There are not countless numbers of outstanding temples, spires, and minarets in the Cedar Breaks bowl, but Cedar Breaks is on a more gigantic scale and has a greater variety of tints. The Pink Cliffs here have a thickness of nearly 2,000 feet, and 47 different shades of color have been distinguished.
The heavily forested rim attains an altitude of 10,700 feet. The cliffs are white or orange at the top, breaking into tints of deep rose and coral. The high elevation also affords an excellent distant view of mountains and desert.