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Show About 1650 words Intended for readers of such outdoor magazines as "Backpacker." Little known, even in Utah, the trails of the Kolob Canyons offer their own special bonus KOLOB ARCH-THE WORLD'S LARGEST AND A HIKER'S DREAM For years, rangers at Zion National Park in Utah's southwest corner had been hinting that Zion, not Arches National Park, had the world's largest known natural span. Span is the term used to cover both natural bridges and arches. And it was an arch hidden away in the park's Kolob Canyons section, an arch that had never been officially measured, that had park personnel guessing as to its place in the record book. It is Landscape Arch in Arches National Park, with a span of 291 feet, that has been cited as both the world's largest natural arch and span, while Rainbow Natural Bridge, at 289 feet, is cited as the largest bridge. But last summer a survey crew from Brigham Young University entered Zion's Kolob section, spent a day measuring the arch, and emerged to later declare that, indeed, Kolob Arch is the world's largest. Span: 310 feet. The arch is a hiker's dream. Amid canyons that blush redder than Zion Canyon itself, on a trail that is only seven miles from a paved highway, it clings to the west wall of a |
