{"id":355777,"date":"2026-06-11T04:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T04:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/355777\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T04:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T04:53:10","slug":"angels-landing-trail-in-zion-national-park-closed-until-further-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/355777\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels Landing trail in Zion National Park closed until further notice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The iconic Angels Landing trail in Zion National Park in Utah was closed Wednesday until further notice after the trail suffered damage in the chain section.\u00a0&#8220;Day-before lotteries may be canceled or delayed,&#8221; reads a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/zion\/planyourvisit\/conditions.htm\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">closure notice<\/a> on the national park&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>The Angels Landing trail is among the most popular in the park, which is itself the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/subjects\/socialscience\/visitor-use-statistics-dashboard.htm\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">second-most visited<\/a> in the country after Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Last year, just under 5 million people traveled to Utah to view the area\u2019s deep sandstone canyons, and of those, about 200,000 climbed Angels Landing.<\/p>\n<p>Hikers gain just under 1,500 feet of elevation over the 5.4-mile round-trip trek, which is widely regarded as a strenuous endeavor. The path, which was first created in 1926, follows a narrow spire of rock to its summit. Toward the top, hikers rely on chains to navigate a knife\u2019s edge known as the Hogsback or the Spine, and the reward for reaching the top is a sweeping view into Zion Canyon.<\/p>\n<p>In April, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/national-parks\/article\/angels-landing-zion-death-22216006.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">man died<\/a> after falling from the trail \u2014 the first fall-related death reported since the park implemented a reservations system for the dangerous route in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Southwest Contributing Parks Editor Amanda Heidt contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The iconic Angels Landing trail in Zion National Park in Utah was closed Wednesday until further notice after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105,1229],"class_list":["post-355777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-sfgparks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}