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The Ultimate Southwest Vacation is on Route 89!
Stay in Mt. Carmel Jct., the heart of the parks, and visit
the treasures of the Southwest.
Zion Park 12 miles
Grand Staircase 6 miles
Sand Dunes 12 miles
Dixie Forest 22 miles
Cedar Breaks 45 miles
Red Canyon 47 miles
Coyote Butte 57 miles
Bryce Canyon 60 miles
Toroweap 90 miles
North Rim 95 miles
Plan your Zion National Park Vacation with our Utah Maps and
Information
In these pages you will find insiders information on Zion National
Park lodging, adventures and hikes. This detailed guide includes road maps, park
maps, pictures, trail beta, backpacking, history, fees, geology, flora, fauna,
campgrounds, things for kids to do and even information on Zion's hidden treasures.
Making summer memories in the Utah National Parks and National
Monuments.
Utah!
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Zion
National Park Map
Directions to Zion National Park and Navigation: From Salt Lake
City travel I-15 south. Exit to hwy 20. Follow SR 89 to Mt. Carmel Jct. Take
SR 9 to Zion east entrance. From Las Vegas travel Interstate 15 north to Exit
16. Take Hwy 9 to the only stop light in LaVerkin. Turn right on hwy 9. Continue
on Hwy 9 to the south entrance of the park. SR 9 through the park is always open.
Oversized
Vehicle Information
Zion
Canyon Shuttle Information
Top left to right: Shooting Star, Indian Paintbrush, Golden
Columbine, Prickly Pear cactus, Sego Lily and the Scarlet Gila. Almost 800 native
species of plant life are found in Zion National Park. Scientists work hard to
keep Zion's native species in the park.
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Zion National Park Flora (Plants)
Many plant species exist in Zion National Park
Almost 800 native species of plant life are found in Zion National Park. Scientists
work hard to keep Zion's native species in the park. Native species of plants
in Zion Park include:
Black/Water birch
Elm Family
Hackberry
Juniper Family
Arizona cypress
Utah juniper
Rocky Mountain juniper
Bigtooth maple
Boxelder
Oak or Beech Family
Gambel oak
Shrub live oak
Wavyleaf oak
Olive Family
Singleleaf ash
Desert/Velvet ash
Paradise Tree Family
Tree of heaven
Pea Family
New Mexico locust
Black locust
White fir
Pinon
Single-leaf pinon
Ponderosa pine
Douglas fir
Apple tree
Pear tree
Tamarisk
Willow Family
Western yarrow
Pussy toes
Tansy aster
Glaucous aster
Siskiyou aster
Desert marigold
Arrowleaf balsamroot
Arizona thistle
New Mexico thistle
Utah thistle
Utah daisy
Zion daisy
Sunflower
Bedstraw
Madder
Globemallow
Butterfly milkweed
Juniper mistletoe
Mustard Family
Rockcress
Chorispora
Zion draba
Western wallflower
Watercress
Twinpod
Giant helleborine
Stonecrop
Pea Family
Stinking milkvetch
Zion milkvetch
Zion sweetpea
Deerclover
Lupine
Thompson peteria
Sweet-clover
Utah clover
Vetch
Skyrocket or Scarlet gilia
Arizona skyrocket
Fescue
Needle and thread grass
Indian ricegrass
Rush
Sedge
Bulrush
Maidenhair fern
Meadow horsetail
Scouring rush
Fremont cottonwood
Quaking aspen
Willow (11)
Agave Family
Datil yucca
Utah yucca
Barberry Family
Creeping mahonia
or Oregon grape
Buckwheat Family
Golden eriogonum
Cashew/Sumac Family
Squawbush
Poison ivy
Composite Family
Old man sagebrush
Big sagebrush
Waterwillow (2)
Rabbitbrush (5)
Broom/Snakeweed
Bush encelia
Dogwood Family
Red-osier dogwood
Goosefoot Family
Four-wing saltbush
Grape Family
Canyon grape
Heath Family
Manzanita (2)
Honeysuckle Family
Elderberry (2)
Snowberry (3)
Joint-Fir Family
Mormon tea (3)
Mint Family
Desert sage
Goldenaster (3)
Broom senecio (6 other)
Goldenrod (6)
Wirelettuce (3)
Goatsbeard (2)
Duckweed Family
Duckweed
Evening-Primose Family
Yellow day primrose
White tufted evening primrose
Pale evening-primrose
Hummingbird trumpet
Figwort Family
Early paintbrush
Nuttall gilia
Desert/Mountain phlox
Zion Canyon phlox
Pink Family
Sandwort (4)
Common chickweed
Pondweed Family
Leafy pondweed
Potato Family
Sacred datura
Groundcherry (2)
Nightshade (4)
Primose Family
Zion shooting star
Purslane Family
Spring beauty
Bitterroot (2)
Miners lettuce
Rose Family
Rockmat/Rockspiraea
Saxifrage Family
Alumroot
Woodland star (2)
Spiderwort Family
Spiderwort
Spurge Family
Whitemargin spurge
Violet Family
Wanderer violet (2 other)
Waterleaf Family
Phacelia (11)
Scorpion weed
Grass Family
Big bluestem
Purple/ Red three-awn
Side-oats grama (4 other)
Cheatgrass
Jones reedgrass
Mustard Family
Prince's Plume
Oleaster Family
Russian olive
Roundleaf buffaloberry
Bellflower Family
Cardinal flower
Borage Family
Yellow forget-me-not
Golden cryptanth (10 other)
Puccoon (3)
Buckwheat Family
Slickrock sulfurflower
Zion desert trumpet
White-flowered
Thompson eriogonum
Wild rhubarb
Buttercup Family
Golden columbine
Western columbine
Larkspur (3)
Sand buttercup (6 other)
Cactus Family
Purple torch
Hedgehog cactus
Claret cup (2)
Utah beavertail
Cholla (2)
Engelmann prickly pear
Cliff prickly pear
Prickly pear (5)
Caper Family
Yellow beeplant
Cattail Family
Cattail (2)
Composite Family
Giant red paintbrush
Wyoming paintbrush
Slickrock paintbrush
Scarlet monkeyflower (6 other)
Eaton penstemon
Low penstemon
Jones penstemon
Royal penstemon
Palmer penstemon
Utah penstemon (10 other)
Flannel mullein
Flax Family
Lewis/Blue flax (2 other)
Four O'clock Family
Fragrant sand verbena
Colorado four o'clock
Gentian Family
Elkweed
Whitemargin gentian
Geranium Family
Filaree
Wild geranium
Goosefoot Family
Russian thistle
Gourd Family
Wild or Coyote gourd
Lily Family
Tapertip onion
Patis onion
Benstem mariposa
Sego lily
Bluedicks
Death camas (2)
False solomon-seal (2)
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