Utah - Bryce Canyon National Park

Bryce Canyon
National Park

Thor's Hammer, one of Bryce Canyon's popular hoodoos, is visible from Sunset Point.

Photographer: Chet Waggener

This postcard is from 2000.

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Bryce Canyon National Park is a National Park located in southwestern Utah. Despite its name, it is not a canyon, but a collection of giant natural amphitheaters.

Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos.  A hoodoo is a tall, thin spire of rock that protrudes from the bottom of an arid drainage basin or badland. 

Utah - Ogden, First Permanent Home

First Permanent Home in Utah

Erected on the Weber River in 1845 my Miles Goodyear, mountain man.  Made of cottonwood logs with roof of poles, rushes and dirt.  The cabin served as a pioneer home for years, then as a blacksmith shop.  Now located at the Daughters of Utah Pioneer Museum, 2148 Grant. Ave., Ogden, Utah.

Utah - Zion National Park

Zion National Park - Utah

Photo: Jacek Kociolek
2008

Utah - Two Postcards of the 'This is the Place' Monument

"This Is The Place" Monument,

Emigration Canyon

Salt Lake City, Utah

This $300,000 monument commemorates the arrival of "Mormon" pioneers into the Great Salt Lake Valley July 24, 1847.

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"This Is The Place" Monument, Emigration Canyon
Overlooking Salt Lake City, Utah

This monument is erected near the pioneer trail where Brigham Young, after first viewing the Great Salt Lake Valley on July 24, 1847, uttered the historic statement, "This is the place."  The monument commemorates the arrival of the early explorers, trappers and pioneers.

Color by Joseph Muench

Utah - Big Rock Candy Mountain

Big Rock Candy Mountain, Utah

Located on U.S. Highway 89 just 6 miles north of Marysvale, Utah.  It is a unique, highly-colored formation containing fourteen different minerals and presenting a rare appearance of unusual beauty and magnificence.  At its base are the Lemonade Springs.  Nearby flows the turbulent Sevier River where trout fishing is a joyful success.  Here beautiful scenery combines with gracious hospitality.

Utah - Bryce Canyon - Six Vintage Postcards

Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

This road tunnel in Red Canyon is not really a part of Bryce Canyon National Park.  However, as one leaves Highway 89 and approaches Bryce, the road enters Red Canyon and winds up the west side of the plateau from which the formations of Bryce are carved.  In the opinion of some, the beauty of Red Canyon "steals the show" from Bryce.
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The Temple

Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

Resembling the Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City, this intriguing formation is only one of thousands to be seen in spectacular Bryce Canyon - a horseshoe-shaped amphitheater cut by water erosion, and extending down a thousand feet through pink and white limestone.  The ever-changing shadows create a thrilling panorama for the observer, with colors blending from white and gold to deep red and purple.

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Queen's Castle, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

Of the many fantastic formations in the great horseshoe-shaped bowl, the Queen's Castle is one of the most interesting.  Wind and water have carved the pink and white limestone into myriads of unusual forms and figures.

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Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

This towering formation, named Gulliver's Castle, is a fine example of what nature can do with her tools of wind and water.  Erosion has been at work on these soft sandstone deposits for countless generations.  Old forms are gradually being worn away and new ones begin.  But the process is so slow that living memory is hardly long enough to note a major change.

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Bryce Canyon from Rainbow Point

From Rainbow point, the southernmost spot reached by highway, the observer can look northward over most of the Park area, and see some 30 miles of Pink Cliffs.  Included in this panorama are beautiful amphitheaters of Black Birch Canyon and Agua Canyon, and magnificent views across "the land of the purple sage" to Navajo Mountain, 80 miles to the east, and Trumbull Mountains, 99 miles south.

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Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

A vast amphitheater shaped like a bowl, Bryce Canyon is twelve miles long and two miles wide, its walls rising in sculptured terraces and pinnacles 800 feet above the pine-covered floor of the canyon.

Utah - Checkerboard Mesa

Checkerboard Mesa

This unique and imposing all-rock formation is seen along Mount Carmel Highway near the entrance to Zion National Park.

Color photo by Hubert A. Lowman

Utah - El Paco Lodge in Beaver, Utah

Approved AAA Hotel

El Paco Lodge
U.S. 91, Beaver, Utah

Phone: 236

A new, lovely furnished, fire-proof and sound-proof motel with tubs or full-tile showers.  Beautyrest Beds.  Wall-to wall carpets.  Steam heat.  Free heated garages.

Elmer and Vie Paice, Managing Owners

Utah - Salt Lake City, First Chic'N Box Restaurant

Salt Lake City, Utah, is the home of Chic'N Box, originating here in 1950.

Golden-rich, served piping hot, and every inviting piece a tasty, tender morsel of superlative goodness - that's Chic 'N Box - a new American eating habit!

Utah - Cedar City, L.D.S. Chapel

Cedar First Ward L. D. S. Chapel, Cedar City, Utah

The L.D.S. Chapel in the First Ward of Cedar City was erected in 1931 and was dedicated May 27, 1934.  It is constructed of stones of many colors, gathered in and around Cedar City.  The interior wood work, including the pews, is of native red cedar.

The carpets are all home made of wool raised in the community.  The light fixtures are hand made.  Thousands of Tourists visit this chapel each year.  All are impressed with this unique chapel and its beautiful oil painting in the baptistery. 

Utah - Salt Lake City, Mormon Temple

The Salt Lake Temple
The famous Mormon Temple (requiring 40 years to complete) with one of the many beautiful flower gardens found on Temple Square.

Color photo by Hubert A. Lowman

Utah - Salt Lake City, Temple Square

Temple Square, Salt Lake City, Utah

Within the walls of the world-famous Temple Square, in the heart of Salt Lake City, stands the spired "Mormon" Temple which required forty years of pioneer labor to build, and the domed Tabernacle, seating capacity 8,000 and housing the world-renowned Tabernacle organ.  Temple Square is open to the public daily and free guided tours are provided.

Utah - Salt Lake City, State Capitol and Battalion Monument

Utah State Capitol and "Mormon" Battalion Monument, Salt Lake City, Utah

Located on a hill overlooking beautiful Salt Lake Valley, the imposing Utah Sate Capitol was completed in 1915, at a cost exceeding $2,700,000.00.  On the right may be seen the "Mormon" Battalion Monument, a rose-pink granite triangle centered by a heroic bronze figure of a Battalion infantry-man, erected in 1927 to perpetuate the memory of "Mormons" who fought for the United States in the Mexican War of 1846.  At that time the Battalion marched from the Mississippi River to Southern California.

Utah - Salt Lake City, The Doll House Restaurant

The Doll House
Good Home Cooking
"Only the finest in food"

A Good Place to Eat
home style food in a Homey Atmosphere
Hot Rolls - Good Chicken - De Luxe Steak
and Plenty of other Good Things to Eat
Breakfast - Lunch and Dinner

Recommended by Duncan Hines

The Doll House Restaurant
118 So. Main St.
Salt Lake City, Utah

Utah - Arches National Park - Skyline, Double, and Delicate Arch

Skyline Arch, Arches National Park, Utah

As are most arches, Skyline is the result of fracturing and erosion of an exposed sandstone "fin" or wall.  The fin itself was a product of erosion along fracture lines.  which in turn were caused by movement deep within the earth.  

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Double Arch

Arches National Park, Utah

The unusual Double Arch consists of two arches stemming from a common base.  the larger arch extends 165 feet from reef to base and towers 156 feet above the debris below.  It can be seen from the road in the Window's Section of the park. 

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Delicate Arch

Arches National Monument, Utah

One of the best known and most popular formations in the Arches National Monument, Delicate Arch is a symmetrical and finely formed arch.  In this section are found some excellent examples of wind erosion and the brilliant sandstone coloring adds to their scenic beauty.

Utah - Monument Valey, 'The Mittens' with Rainbow

Monument Valley
The Mittens

Monument Valley provides perhaps the most enduring and definitive images of the American West.  The isolated red mesas and buttes surrounded by empty, sandy desert have been filmed and photographed countless times over the years.

Photo: Jim Cole
2008

Utah - Bryce Canyon - From: Scenic American Landscapes, USPS

Bryce Canyon, Utah

In Utah, ice and rain have sculpted eerie rock spires known as hoodoos.  Bryce Canyon itself has been carved not by flowing water but by the shattering and cracking of limestone when rainfall settles and freezes at night.
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From a set of 'Scenic American Landscapes" stamped postcards from the United States Postal Service (USPS).

the back reads:
Share the pristine beauty of America's national parks with this set of 20 stamped cards.  Ten different designs showcase spectacular photographs originally featured on 'Scenic American Landscapes' stamps.  Postage included, so mailing is easy - or save them as a unique collectible set.
2010  

Utah - Zion National Park - From: Scenic American Landscapes, USPS

Zion National Park, Utah

Among these multi-hued mesas and canyons, evidence of humanity dates back more than 8,000 years.  Exposed layers of sedimentary rock on the east side of the park also reveal far deeper stages of geologic time.
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This is from a set of 'Scenic American Landscapes" stamped postcards from the United States Postal Service (USPS).

the back reads:
Share the pristine beauty of America's national parks with this set of 20 stamped cards.  Ten different designs showcase spectacular photographs originally featured on 'Scenic American Landscapes' stamps.  Postage included, so mailing is easy - or save them as a unique collectible set.
2010  

Utah - Arches National Park, Wood Postcard

Arches National Park

Delicate Arch, with an opening 32 feet wide and 46 feet high, provides a frame for the La Sal Mountains.  This dramatic free-standing arch is all that remains of a thin Entrada Sandstone fin sculpted by thousands of years of erosion.
2013 (This postcard is made of wood.) 

Utah - Provo

Provo, Utah
2013

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Provo is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Utah and has a population at the 2010 census of 112,488.

The city is home to Brigham Young University, one of the largest private higher education institutions in the United States.