With 16 miles of sandstone walls soaring up to 3,000 feet above the riverbed and hanging gardens draped above the fast, clear water, Zion National Park’s Zion Narrows is a hiking experience that has ...

Difficulty: The Narrows is a choose-your-own challenge type of experience. It can be as easy or as hard as you want; regardless, you’ll be walking through moving water on a slippery riverbed, and ...

SPRINGDALE, Utah — I stepped gingerly into the river, 64-degree water rushing through my rented rubber hiking books. I spent the next three hours walking — slowly, carefully — across the rocky bed of ...

Days after Zion National Park announced it would stop issuing permits for a popular trail, the “top-down” hike through the Narrows has been reopened — at least for the rest of 2018. The national park, ...

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The window for hiking the Narrows in Zion National Park this year is likely to be, well, narrow. The Virgin River serves as the trail for this wet and popular hike up Zion Canyon. Those willing to ...

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“Own over 1 mile of the Zion Narrows,” promises a “for sale” sign affixed to a redrock canyon wall along the world-famous Utah hiking route into Zion National Park. “880 Acres. With Water. Resort ...

A 31-year-old woman on an overnight hike in Zion National Park's the Narrows died Wednesday after her husband left her to get help as temperatures plunged. On Wednesday morning, shuttle drivers ...

Join us as we take on the challenge of hiking the Subway in Zion National Park on the hottest day of the year, with ...

Emma Veidt is Backpacker’s assistant skills editor. She earned her master’s degree from the Missouri School of Journalism. These days, you can find her hiking, climbing, and running around Southern ...