Yovimpa Point

Yovimpa Point sits at the end of the park's 18-mile scenic drive, a short paved walk from the Rainbow Point parking lot and facing the opposite direction from its neighbor. At 9,115 feet it's tied for the highest developed viewpoint in Bryce Canyon National Park, and the payoff is one of the longest sightlines in the park: over 100 miles south across the layered cliffs of the Grand Staircase. Below and to either side, the Pink Cliffs show the same iron-oxide coloring and frost-carved shapes that define the park's hoodoos, just on a bigger, more distant scale. The name derives from a Southern Paiute word roughly translated as point of the pines.

Good to know

• Paved, level path from the parking area — about 0.3 miles round trip, wheelchair and stroller accessible
• Trailheads for the Bristlecone Loop and the longer Riggs Spring Loop start from the same parking area
• Highest point in the park; expect colder temperatures and wind year-round
• Snow and ice affect the access road and paths roughly November–April