Glacier, Montana · Bryce Canyon, Utah
Two parks carved by opposite forces — ice grinding valleys out of the Rockies, water and frost sculpting stone into spires. Start with either one.
Bryce Amphitheater at first light
10,466 FT
Mount Cleveland, the high point of Glacier
9,115 FT
Rainbow Point, the high rim at Bryce Canyon
1,049,000 ACRES
Protected across both parks combined
Featured — 02 of 63 national parks
A million acres of glacier-cut valleys, hanging waterfalls and turquoise lakes along the Continental Divide. Grizzlies, mountain goats and bighorn sheep still range across the same terrain the ice left behind. It is the wildest country the Rockies have on offer.
Not a canyon at all, but a run of natural amphitheaters eroded from the edge of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. Frost splits the limestone roughly two hundred nights a year, leaving behind the densest concentration of hoodoos anywhere on Earth. After dark, the sky takes over.
