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Bryce Canyon National Park is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.

This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on February 13, 2005.

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Elevation vs Zion

The statement that Bryce is 1000 feet higher than Zion is rather conservative. For example, Bryce's visitor center is almost 4000 feet higher than Zion's (7900 vs 3934). 75.169.158.172 (talk) 17:54, 23 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Featured picture scheduled for POTD

Hello! This is to let editors know that the featured picture File:Inspiration Point Bryce Canyon November 2018 panorama.jpg, which is used in this article, has been selected as the English Wikipedia's picture of the day (POTD) for August 19, 2021. A preview of the POTD is displayed below and can be edited at Template:POTD/2021-08-19. For the greater benefit of readers, any potential improvements or maintenance that could benefit the quality of this article should be done before its scheduled appearance on the Main Page. If you have any concerns, please place a message at Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day. Thank you! Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:49, 7 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Bryce Canyon National Park is an American national park located in southwestern Utah. The major feature of the park is Bryce Canyon, which despite its name, is not a canyon, but a collection of giant natural amphitheaters along the eastern side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. This panoramic view, as seen from Inspiration Point, shows the colorful Claron Formation, from which the park's delicate hoodoos are carved; the sediments were laid down in a system of streams and lakes that existed from 63 to about 40 million years ago (from the Paleocene to the Eocene epochs). The brown, pink and red colors are from hematite, the yellows from limonite, and the purples from pyrolusite.

Photograph credit: Tony Jin

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Ununique unique structures

This article states in the opening section that it has unique geological structures called hoodoos. Hoodoos exist elsewhere all over the world and are by no means unique to Bryce Canyon. This should be removed or rephrased both here and on the Wikipedia main page where an image of the canyon is the featured image. Ben W Bell talk 01:17, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see a single instance of the word "unique" anywhere in the article

ICE77 (talk) 06:25, 22 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Question and comments

1. If the park is not a canyon then why is it improperly called "Bryce Canyon National Park" and why the NPS does not properly rename it simply to "Bryce National Park"?

2. I think the history section should be placed before anything else, including the geography and climate sections.

3. The section called "Creation of the park" does not tell the story in a linear and chronological fashion. It should be reorganized and rewritten so that the sequence is from the past to the present. I see several instances of jumping back and forth in time.

ICE77 (talk) 06:35, 22 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Featured article - Status

Greetings, Today I added several cn-tags within the article; and the Ref. improve notice. If article is to remain FA, improvements are needed. Thanks, JoeNMLC (talk) 15:52, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Lfstevens: I saw that you did a copyedit of the article in June. Are you willing to address the above concerns? Z1720 (talk) 19:23, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not an SME. Not a good choice for this. Lfstevens (talk) 05:52, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

So much more work is required to keep the FA status on this article. Alexeyevitch^(talk) 12:36, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@JoeNMLC and Alexeyevitch: If this article is far from meeting the featured article criteria, would either of you be willing to post this article at WP:FAR and explain your concerns? Z1720 (talk) 14:38, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Z1720, my focus on Wikipedia is Orphan articles. I came across this particular article because one of my relatives mentioned visiting there. I'm not at all familiar with the FAR process, so would rather not participate. IMO, the article reads well & can be made better with additional citations. Regards, JoeNMLC (talk) 20:06, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

After a failed attempt on a different poorly cited FA. Which had many uncited paragraphs and original research. You just can't make this stuff up anymore. I will attempt this again and will be in touch if I need more help because I am unfamiliar with how FAR works. Alexeyevitch^(talk) 00:03, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]