The Bryce Amphitheater
Wall Street and the Navajo Loop
A narrow passage between tall walls of limestone on one side of the Navajo Loop, below Sunset Point.
MeasuredUse the place description to choose what to study, then check the approach, walking effort and current restrictions before leaving.
Conditions & official access sources · Compare walking distance and climb · Queen’s Garden–Navajo route choices
DerivedWall Street: 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
Wall Street is one side of the Navajo Loop below Sunset Point. The trail drops between tall fins of limestone into a narrow passage, where the shape of the open space matters as much as the rock around it.1,2
NPS closes the Wall Street side of the loop in winter; other closures may apply, so check the current trail notice before setting out. The other side of the loop, through Two Bridges, returns to the same rim.3,1,4
From above, the narrow walls hide the floor of the passage. The 2018 lidar sampled the rim and the tops of the walls far better than the slot floor, overhangs and tree trunks, so the 3D model is a view from above, not a walkable model of the passage.5
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
DerivedWall Street: a narrow crop, a steep story. Compare its 320 m width with the broader northern studies at a shared scale. Airborne upper-envelope data can connect returns across steep faces, but cannot describe the hidden walls of the passage. A 320 m line at equal horizontal and vertical scale; heights 2,343–2,415 m.5 Section data (JSON) · Drawing (SVG)Walks from here
- Navajo LoopTwo sides of one steep descent. NPS: 1.3 mi, 515 ft of climbing, moderate.
- Queen’s Garden / NavajoTwo trails joined by a walk along the rim. NPS: 2.9 mi, 625 ft of climbing, moderate.
Trail figures are the National Park Service’s. They are not current conditions; check NPS notices before a hike.
Living things here
Habitats: Rocky breaks & rim, Ponderosa forest. The passage cuts through the rocky breaks of the amphitheater, where NPS notes trees adapted to difficult growing sites; ponderosa pine and manzanita characterize the middle elevations.11,12,13
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 3D view covers a square about 320 metres on a side. Heights in the lidar returns range from 2,315 m (7,595 ft) to 2,455 m (8,056 ft). The surface is built from what an aircraft could see from above: undersides, overhangs and narrow gaps are not reconstructed.
Data and sources
Datasets
- Terrain for 20 places
- Lidar return samples
- Canyon sections
- Trails and profiles
- Park destinations and roads
Sources
- National Park Service · Sunset Point · 2026-08-15
- National Park Service · Visiting in Winter · 2024-03-05
- National Park Service · Current Conditions · 2026-08-31
- 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 · 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
- National Park Service, Bryce Canyon · Trees and Shrubs · June 29, 2022