Episode 28 of 80 Days Around the United States, Bryce Canyon National Park

hello! This is the story of Mayapaya's twenty-eighth trip to America.
There are rock spires called hoodoos created by weathering and erosion. Today's story is about Bryce Canyon National Park, where an amphitheater filled with tens of thousands of delicate and colorful hoodoos spreads out in various places, creating a fantastic scenery that can't be seen anywhere else in the world.
The Colorado Plateau, from southern Utah to northern Arizona, has huge sedimentary rock formations that form steps. Scholars call this area the ‘Grand Staircase’, or ‘the great strata staircase’. The sedimentary rock formations that make up this massive tectonic step extend 100 miles (161 km) south from Bryce Canyon through Zion Canyon to the Grand Canyon. At the highest point, the lowest point of Bryce Canyon becomes the highest point of Zion Canyon, and the lowest point of Zion Canyon becomes the highest point of Grand Canyon. There are stairs connected to each other.
Bryce Canyon's diverse rock formations were created by deposition of Lake Claron, which was located here about 500 million years ago. The uplift of the Colorado Plateau pushed the Bryce Canyon area, the highest point of the Grand Staircase rock formation, to 2,778 meters above sea level. Later weathering, which breaks down the rock, and erosion, which transports the broken rock, sculpted Bryce Canyon's Hoodoos. Bryce Canyon has been deposited, uplifted, weathered, and eroded over a very long period of time, creating a natural amphitheater and tens of thousands of colorful rock spiers (hoodoos) lining the amphitheater, creating an amazing and fantastic landscape.
We take you to the spectacular rock amphitheater of Bryce Canyon National Park, home to the largest concentration of hoodoos on Earth.