Mount Moroni is a elevation Navajo Sandstone summit located at the Court of the Patriarchs in

Zion National Park Zion National Park is a national park of the United States located in southwestern Utah near the town of Springdale. Located at the junction of the Colorado Plateau, Great Basin, and Mojave Desert regions, the park has a unique geography and a ...

, in Washington County of southwest

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, United States.

Description

Mount Moroni is located immediately southwest of

Zion Lodge Zion Lodge is located in Zion National Park, Utah, United States. The lodge was designed in 1924 as a compromise solution between its developer, the Utah Parks Company, which wanted a large hotel, and National Park Service director Stephen Mathe ...

, towering above the lodge and the floor of

Zion Canyon Zion Canyon (also called Little Zion, Mukuntuweap, Mu-Loon'-Tu-Weap, and Straight Cañon; ''weap'' is Southern Paiute, Paiute for canyon) is a deep and narrow gorge in southwestern Utah, Utah, United States, carved by the North Fork of the Virgin ...

. It is set alongside the North Fork of the

Virgin River The Virgin River is a tributary of the Colorado River in the U.S. states of Utah, Nevada, and Arizona. The river is about long.Calculated with Google Maps and Google Earth It was designated Utah's first wild and scenic river in 2009, during the ...

which drains precipitation runoff from this mountain. Its neighbors include The Sentinel, Mountain of the Sun,

Twin Brothers Twin Brothers is a Navajo Sandstone mountain in Zion National Park in Washington County, Utah, United States. Description Twin Brothers is situated immediately north of The East Temple, and immediately south of Mountain of the Sun, toweri ...

, Mount Spry,

The East Temple The East Temple is a prominent summit composed of Navajo Sandstone in Zion National Park, in Washington County, Utah, Washington County of southwest Utah, United States. It is one of the notable landmarks in the park. The nearest neighbor is Tw ...

, and the Three Patriarchs: peaks Abraham,

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, and

Jacob Jacob, later known as Israel, is a Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions. He first appears in the Torah, where he is described in the Book of Genesis as a son of Isaac and Rebecca. Accordingly, alongside his older fraternal twin brother E ...

. This feature's name was officially adopted in 1934 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names. It is named for

Angel Moroni The angel Moroni () is an angel whom Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, reported as having visited him on numerous occasions, beginning on September 21, 1823. According to Smith, the angel Moroni was the guardian of the gold ...

, who presented

Joseph Smith Joseph Smith Jr. (December 23, 1805June 27, 1844) was an American religious and political leader and the founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement. Publishing the Book of Mormon at the age of 24, Smith attracted tens of thou ...

with the golden plates from which he translated and published the

Book of Mormon The Book of Mormon is a religious text of the Latter Day Saint movement, first published in 1830 by Joseph Smith as ''The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon upon Plates Taken from the Plates of Nephi''. The book is one of ...

Climate

Spring and fall are the most favorable seasons to visit Mount Moroni. According to the

Köppen climate classification The Köppen climate classification divides Earth climates into five main climate groups, with each group being divided based on patterns of seasonal precipitation and temperature. The five main groups are ''A'' (tropical), ''B'' (arid), ''C'' (te ...

system, it is located in a

Cold semi-arid climate Cold is the presence of low temperature, especially in the atmosphere. In common usage, cold is often a subjective perception. A lower bound to temperature is absolute zero, defined as 0.00K on the Kelvin scale, an absolute thermodynamic ...

zone, which is defined by the coldest month having an average mean temperature below , and at least 50% of the total annual precipitation being received during the spring and summer. This desert climate receives less than of annual rainfall, and snowfall is generally light during the winter.

Climbing Routes

Climbing Routes on Mount Moroni include: * ''Road to Cumorah'' - IV C1 - 10 pitches * ''The Groper'' - III - 6 pitches * ''Forced Issue'' - III/IV R - 9 pitches * ''Varco Route'' - II - 2 pitches * ''Voice From The Dust'' - III - 9 pitches * ''Plan B'' - IV - 9 pitches * ''Molecules of Emotion'' - IV - 6 pitches * ''Crack in the Cosmic Egg'' - V C2 - 6 pitches

Gallery

File:Mount Moroni in Zion NP.jpg File:Three Patriarchs January 2011.jpg, Court of the Patriarchs in winter. The Sentinel, Abraham, Isaac, and Moroni (right) File:Three Patriarchs, Zion Canyon, Zion National Park, Utah (1026040622).jpg, Isaac and Mt. Moroni File:Isaac and Moroni, Zion National Park.jpg, Isaac (left), Moroni (right) File:Virgin River in Winter (5015257425).jpg, Mt. Moroni winter snow File:Court of the Patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, Moroni.jpg, Court of the Patriarchs. Abraham, Isaac, Mt. Moroni File:Sculpted Zion Peaks.jpg, Moroni, with the white rock of Jacob in back File:Mount Moroni.jpg File:Mount Moroni.jpg,

Abraham Peak Abraham Peak is a tall rock formation in Zion National Park in Washington County, Utah, United States. Access to Abraham Peak is from the main Park road through Sand Beach Trail. Abraham Peak is the tallest of the three peaks that make the Th ...

(left) with Mount Moroni (center).

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