The Bryce Amphitheater
Bryce Point
The southernmost view of the Bryce Amphitheater, looking north along its full length.
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Conditions & official access sources · Compare walking distance and climb
DerivedBryce Point sector: the 2018 USGS lidar surface, seen at an angle from above. The site’s collection has no modern photograph of this place; surface color and lighting are drawn, not measured.What you’re looking at
Bryce Point is the southernmost view of the Bryce Amphitheater, famous for its view north across the full length of the amphitheater: past the Wall of Windows near Inspiration Point to Silent City beside Sunset Point.1
NPS also describes cavities called the Grottos in the nearby white limestone. In Southern Paiute oral tradition, as the park retells it, the hoodoos are ancient Legend People turned to stone by the trickster Coyote.1
The Peekaboo Loop and the Hat Shop trail both leave from here. Maurice Cope photographed the Wall of Windows from the Peekaboo Trail; the museum catalog dates the negative only broadly, between 1920 and 1940.1,2,3
Turn it in 3D
Turn the surface, cut a section across it, and compare the aerial color with the laser returns the aircraft recorded. The 3D view loads only when you open it.
Section and skyline
DerivedBryce Point skyline: A northward local study from the southern end of the amphitheater. The compass crosses 360° without reversing the order of the landscape. Drawing (SVG)Then and now
Early photographs of the same ground. They record a view, not a measured change; the camera positions are not known exactly.
Best light
DerivedCalculated sunlight on the 2018 terrain at 09:00 and 17:00 Mountain Daylight Time on 20 March, the equinox. Sun bearing and height are computed; the surface color is drawn, and clouds, haze and trees are not modeled.Walks from here
- Peekaboo LoopA loop with a climb to get home. NPS: 5.5 mi, 1,560 ft of climbing, strenuous.
Trail figures are the National Park Service’s. They are not current conditions; check NPS notices before a hike.
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Living things here
Habitats: Rocky breaks & rim. The point stands on the exposed rim above the breaks, where NPS notes that rocky ridges support trees adapted to difficult growing sites.11,12
Living Bryce entries for these habitats:
Care
NPS asks visitors to stay on trails, avoid climbing hoodoos, leave natural objects where they are and avoid feeding or disturbing wildlife. Walking toward a hoodoo’s base can disturb the clay-rich slopes that help protect its foundations, so enjoy the formations from established trails and overlooks.9,10
Read without 3D
The Bryce Point sector sits at the southern end of the main amphitheater. The surface can describe the ridge above hidden spaces; it cannot reveal those spaces from within.
- West to east through the center: 2,365 m at the west edge, 2,339 m at the east edge; lowest 2,335 m, highest 2,418 m.
- South to north through the center: 2,515 m at the south edge, 2,298 m at the north edge; lowest 2,298 m, highest 2,536 m.
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Data and sources
Datasets
- Terrain for 20 places
- Lidar return samples
- Overlook skylines
- Archival photographs
- Calculated sun on terrain
- Trails and profiles
- Park destinations and roads
- Relief in text and print
Sources
- National Park Service · Bryce Point · 2024-10-10
- National Park Service · Hat Shop · 2024-10-10
- Bryce Canyon National Park Museum and Archives · Nitrate negative of Wall of Windows from the Peekaboo Trail in BRCA. ; BRCA Museum and Archives Image BRCA8875_001_028 ; BRCA 8875
- USGS data; public Entwine organization maintained by Hobu · USGS 3DEP LiDAR Point Clouds · 2018 acquisition; LAS published 2019
- US Geological Survey · USGS Lidar Point Cloud UT Southern QL1 2018 12SUG9562 LAS 2019 metadata · 2019-06-03
- USDA FPAC / Farm Service Agency · USDA conterminous US NAIP imagery service · 2024 Utah acquisition, exact flight dates per crop
- National Park Service · Parking Information
- National Park Service · Current Conditions · 2026-08-31
- National Park Service · Protect the Hoodoos · 2018-10-16
- National Park Service · Hiking · 2024-10-11
- National Park Service, Bryce Canyon · Plants · April 30, 2023
- National Park Service, Bryce Canyon · Limber Pine · March 3, 2025