Canyonlands National Park

Island in the Sky Visitor Center
9:00am–4:30pm Daily
Closed Christmas Day

Needles Visitor Center
9:00am–4:30pm Daily
Closed Christmas Day

Maze Ranger Station
9:00am–4:30pm Daily
Closed Christmas Day

Canyonlands National Park, a unique destination full of spires, buttes, arches, rivers and most spectacular of all, vast canyons. This park is home to The Needles, Maze and Island of the Sky districts. Each area offers its own unique scenery and vastness that provide feelings of solitude. Canyonlands is sliced into these three areas by the Green and Colorado rivers. Beautiful vistas and overlooks have kept park visitors in awe for many years. Canyonlands is still an untrammeled and quiet mass of canyons that often appeal to the more rugged of hikers, 4 wheel drivers and mountain bikers.

If you plan to visit Canyonlands National Park, summers are hot and winters cool, if not sometimes very cold. Any time of year it is best to travel with layers and as water is not available in most parts of the park, plan ahead by picking up water in the nearby towns such as Moab.

If you have time, don"t forget to visit the nearby park, Arches National Park. These two parks compliment each other beautifully with two very different types of scenery. If a desert and canyon area is something you have not yet seen, Canyonlands National Park is a must see!

Highlights of Canyonlands National Park

Island in the Sky

Spectacular vistas make Island in the Sky a very popular place to visit when traveling to Canyonlands National Park. With scenery that stretches to the horizon and to mountain peaks, Island in the Sky proves to be a beautiful area to try to get those photographs.

The Maze District

People come to this wilderness of broken rock, little water, and stunted junipers and find intangible resources hard to find elsewhere: solitude, silence, and challenges demanding self-reliance. The 600 foot descent to the bottom of the Maze is a plunge into the heart of this country.

The Needles

The Needles is a startling landscape of sculptured rock spires, arches, canyons, grabens, and potholes. The dominant landforms are the Needles themselves - rock pinnacles banded in red and white. Earth movements fractured the rock, and water, wind, and freezing and thawing eroded it into the jumbled terrain of today.