A major bottleneck in Zion National Park is about to undergo preservation construction, officials announced on Tuesday.. The Mount Carmel Tunnel, the iconic 1.1-mile tunnel built in 1930, is ...

Zion vs. Bryce Canyon: An Overview. Given that Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks are within a 2 hour drive of one another, you’d think that you’d get essentially the same thing at both.

The now famous Zion-Mount Carmel Tunnel was part of this highway project. Bored straight through the sandstone cliffs above Pine Creek Canyon, this 1.1-mile-long tunnel was first started in the ...

The Zion-Mt. Carmel Tunnel runs for about 1.1 miles, providing direct access between Zion and Bryce Canyon. Drivers are urged to use caution and slow down when inside. Zion National Park is ...

Construction on Zion National Park's iconic Mt. Carmel Tunnel is set to end this Friday, a Tuesday press release said. The iconic 1.1-mile tunnel, built in 1930, was scheduled to undergo overnight ...

is home to five national parks—including Arches, Canyonlands, Bryce Canyon, and Capitol Reef—but Zion, its first, remains the most popular. (It attracted over 3.5 million visitors last year ...

Zion and Bryce Canyon are at the base of the Grand Staircase, a massive set of sedimentary rock layers that begins at the Grand Canyon and extends north 200 miles into Utah.

The highway will be closed from 10 p.m. Monday to 6 a.m. on Tuesday, and then again from Tuesday night to Wednesday morning as construction crews work on the highway by the Zion-Mt. Carmel Tunnel.