Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1953)

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179 Photographs by Felix and Nikki Zelenka PICTURE-WINDOW parking bays dot the mile-long shaft of the ZionMount Carmel tunnel, providing breathtaking views of silhouette of the Canyon below. Great White Throne, 2500 foot monolith, is at right. ZION National Park How to get there and what to film in this Southern Utah canyon FELIX ZELENKA IF YOU are fortunate enough this summer to point your camera toward the spectacular canyon country of Southern Utah, there are a couple of "musts" to include and underline in your itinerary. Such a place is «ight-mile-long Zion Canyon, a masterpiece of erosion carved by the meandering Virgin River in Zion National Park. ORIGINS OF ZION For many thousands of years the Virgin has been busy at deepening its channels and transporting material weathered from the canyon walls. Named for Thomas Virgin, a member of an 1827 exploration party, the river and its tributaries have created a region that in some respects is reminiscent of Yosemite Valley in California. So pronounced is this similarity that many people have felt the origins of these two regions must also have been similar. This is not true. No glaciers occurred at Zion. And, in fact, before the Virgin River established its course, there was no gorge, no sandstone cliffs of deep red and vermilion, no towering monolithic temples. Actually the stream began its work following much the same course it does today; but it was some 5000 feet above its present level. HOW TO REACH ZION Motorists' traveling west of Zion via the Arrowhead Trail, U. S. Highway 91, may turn off at Anderson's Junction or Harrisburg Bench Junction. From here, State Route 15 leads directly into the park, just as it does from the east side on U. S. Highway 89. By rail, Zion is reached only on the Union Pacific from Cedar City, Utah. From this point motor bus service is provided by the Utah Parks Company, from June 15 to September 6. (Write W. P. Rogers, manager of Utah Parks Hotels, Cedar City, Utah, for reservations or for further infor mation.) But if you choose to fly, United Air Lines serves Salt Lake City, from which passengers may take the railroad or the bus to Cedar City. Air service also is available from Los Angeles by Western Air Lines. TWO ENTRANCES Although there are some twenty miles of modern highways in the park proper, no one has really seen Zion until he travels over the valley road from the south entrance to the Temple of Sinawava. Over this route, which parallels the river, the scenery will invariably coax more film through your camera than you intended to use. No one will enjoy the ride more than he who arrives in a top-down convertible, since much of Zion's beauty rises upward for more than a half mile into the azure Utah skies. Motoring from the east entrance, the visitor approaches the park via the 11% mile long, breath-taking ZionMount Carmel Highway, which at one point leads through the mile long Zion-Mount Carmel Tunnel. The fact that the tunnel architects designed [Continued on page 187] EROSIVE FORCES which carved out Zion's canyon and left standing her peaks are -plotted in this exhibit at Temple of Sinawava.