Twin Brothers is a Navajo Sandstone mountain 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,

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, United States.

Description

Twin Brothers is situated immediately north of

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 immediately south of Mountain of the Sun, towering above 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 across the canyon include

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, The Sentinel, and Mount Moroni. Mount Spry, set southwest and below Twin Brothers, often appears in photos taken of both from park headquarters. 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 Twin Brothers. 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 32 °F (0 °C), 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:Twin Brothers after storm.jpg, Twin Brothers after storm File:Twin Brothers with Zion NP sign.jpg File:Zion Spry Twin Brothers.jpg, Twin Brothers behind reddish Mt. Spry, with Mountain of the Sun to left File:Mountain of the Sun, Twin Brothers.jpg, Mountain of the Sun (left) seen from SW with Twin Brothers (right) File:Twin Brothers from Deertrap.jpg,

(upper left corner), Twin Brothers (left of center), Mountain of the Sun (right) seen from the northeast on Deertrap Mountain File:Looking Down on Zion Canyon.jpg, Twin Brothers left, Mountain of the Sun (right) seen from Deertrap Mountain File:Sunrise from Deertrap Mountain.jpg, Twin Brothers left with its East Face lit up, Mountain of the Sun (without sun), and The West Temple (upper right) at sunrise File:Zion Storm.jpg, Twin Brothers behind reddish Mt. Spry, with Mountain of the Sun to left File:Twin brothers2.jpg

References

External links

Zion National Park
National Park Service * Twin Brothers rock climbing
mountainproject.com
* Weather forecast
Twin Brothers
* Climbing photos

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