Mountain of the Sun is a elevation Navajo Sandstone summit located 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

Utah Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is one of the Four Corners states, sharing a border with Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. It also borders Wyoming to the northea ...

, United States. Mountain of the Sun is situated immediately east of Court of the Patriarchs, and south 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 on the east side of 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, 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 Mount Moroni. This feature's name was officially adopted in 1934 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.

Climate

Spring and fall are the most favorable seasons to visit Mountain of the Sun. 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.

Gallery

File:Mountain of the Sun covering Twin Brothers.jpg, Mountain of the Sun (left) covering

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 ...

(center), as seen from the north File:Mountain of the Sun, sky.jpg, from Zion Lodge File:Mountain of the Sun in Zion Canyon.jpg File:Mountain of Sun.jpg, From the southwest File:Navajo Sandstone cliffs (Lower Jurassic), Pine Creek Canyon, Zion National Park, sw Utah 4.jpg, From the southwest File:Zion Lodge, Zion National Park, Utah.jpg, Zion Lodge and Mountain of the Sun File:Mountain of the Sun, Virgin River.jpg, North aspect, with Virgin River File:Mountain of the Sun and Twin Brothers.jpg, Mountain of the Sun (centered) seen from SW with Twin Brothers (right) File:Twin Brothers from Deertrap.jpg,

, Mountain of the Sun (right of center) seen from the northeast on Deertrap Mountain

References

External links

Zion National Park
National Park Service * Mountain of the Sun rock climbing
mountainproject.com
* Hiking information

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Climate

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See also

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