Sunset Point - Bryce Canyon National Park, UT - American Guide Series on Waymarking.com

SUNSET POINT, half a mile south of Sunrise Point, offers a broader panorama. The immediate foreground of Sunrise Point is a series of massive welded structures, with great segmented columns of yellow and orange rising to a garden of ragged spires on the left, and to orchid and pale-rose pediments on the right. The columns support capitals that look like solidified cream. Directly below Sunset Point is the Hammer. On the right, the chasm is full of ruins. Down below is WALL STREET, a long, narrow corridor, and on the right of it are acres of brilliant upthrusts like a field of stalagmites. Just to the left, the well-preserved ruins of a castle embody a half-dozen savage architectural motifs and cap them all with three colossal columns. The walls here are honeycombed as if bees as large as dragons had worked in them for ages. The colors are rose and orange and yellow in a number of tints.

Beyond, to left and right, the forms approach the Grecian, with more severe lines, leaner columns, and more austere buttresses. The far view is deceptive; when brought close with glasses, this area is a menagerie of statuary, idols of men and beasts standing on picturesquely extravagant pyramids and escarpments. In the far left center is FAIRY CASTLE. For some, the forms much more closely a cemetery, with a magnificent mausoleum in the center, flanked on either side by rows of white headstones. There is probably no lovelier view in the Park than these monuments upon a hill.