The Grotto Trailhead
Hiking the Vertical
From here trails follow different routes up the canyon's
west wall. The perspective changes with every step
upward. Patterns emerge: the river's canyon-carving
path, and the cliffs' cracklines and fractures that hint
at Zion's future. Most of all, the ascent provides a sense
of enormous scale—the depth of this vertical desert,
its ancient sand dunes turned to stone.
