Bryce Canyon covers 56 square miles, or nearly 38,000 acres. While that’s a lot of land to explore, it’s still only about a 10th of the size of Utah’s largest national park, Canyonlands near ...

Bryce Canyon Country occupies a stretch of southern Utah that is so isolated and sparsely populated that until the mid-19th century, local maps of the area were essentially a giant question mark.