Which US national park is known for its distinctive hoodoo rock formations?

Bryce Canyon National Park is the U.S. national park known for its distinctive hoodoo rock formations.

Bryce Canyon, in southern Utah, is famous for its amphitheaters filled with tall, thin spires of rock called hoodoos. These formations develop as frost wedging and erosion enlarge cracks in layered sedimentary rock, leaving columns and walls behind. Their orange, red, and white colors come from iron-rich minerals and differences in the rock layers.

The park was established in 1928 and sits along the eastern edge of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. Although called a canyon, Bryce Canyon is primarily a series of eroded amphitheaters rather than a single river-cut canyon.

Visitors sometimes confuse Bryce’s hoodoos with Arches National Park’s natural arches or Zion’s towering canyon walls. Capitol Reef also lies nearby in Utah, but its defining landscape is the Waterpocket Fold, not Bryce’s dense forest of hoodoos.