Zion National Park is located in southwestern Utah near Springdale, at the junction of the Colorado Plateau, Great Basin, and Mojave Desert regions. [1] The park encompasses mountains, canyons, buttes, mesas, monoliths, rivers, slot canyons, and natural arches across 229 square miles, with elevations ranging from 3,666 feet at Coalpits Wash to 8,726 feet at Horse Ranch Mountain. [1]