Bryce Towers

Royden Card

Bryce Canyon National Park is a sprawling reserve in southern Utah, known for crimson-colored hoodoos—spire-shaped rock formations. The Bruce Canyon Amphitheater is home to the greatest concentration of hoodoos on Earth. It is difficult to grasped that Lake Claron existed in this area 50 million years ago and that the rocks of Bryce Canyon formed near sea level. Over the millenniums plate tectonic shifts elevated the rock formations and Bryce Canyon sits at a maximum elevation of 9,115 feet—the perfect elevation for the forces of nature to sculpt the stone hoodoos. President Warren Harding proclaimed Bryce Canyon a national monument on 8 June 1923. The following year Congress passed a bill to established Utah National Park. The land was acquired and the name was changed back to Bryce Canyon and, on 25 February 1928, Bryce Canyon became an official National Park. In 1931, the size of the park was increased to the current 35,835 acres by President Hoover.

With his woodcut Bryce Towers, Royden Card presents some of the dazzling, naturally carved, crimson-colored hoodoos that have formed within Bryce Canyon National Park.