Canyon Junction Photo Album

Canyon Junction is approximately 1.5 miles from the Lodge as you drive toward the park

entrance. Here the Virgin River, Lower Fork becomes more turbulent on any given day and has

a small waterfall. The water flows south toward the park entrance. The day these photographs

were taken it was approximately 108 degrees Fahrenheit; it had rained the previous evening

hence the water is quite muddy. It does not rain often but when it does it can easily

precipitate an avalanche or landslide. Much of the cliff and canyon attributes are due to the

effects of water; rain, the Virgin River and severe storms. Anytime it rains, even small

amounts of debris and rock fall into the Virgin River.