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Start at 1. Zion Canyon Visitor Center

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Zion Canyon Scenic Drive, Utah

A story for every stop on the Zion Canyon shuttle, from the visitor center to the Temple of Sinawava: Mukuntuweap, the lake a landslide left, the 1925 lodge, Angels Landing, the weeping walls and the end of the road. Works on the shuttle with headphones, or in your own car when the road is open.

14 min of audio · 8 miles · Read the transcript

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    Getting started

    1. Start in the right placeThis tour begins at Zion Canyon Visitor Center. Start while parked; the first story plays when you arrive.
    2. Let's hear itSelect this phone as the car's Bluetooth audio source and set a comfortable volume. Download the tour while you still have signal.
    3. Stories meet you thereYour phone's location starts each story automatically. Music flows straight into the narration. Keep this page open; it keeps the screen awake for GPS.
    4. You're ready to exploreOn the shuttle (early March to late November, and late December): download the tour first, put in headphones and press Start while you wait in the shuttle line at the Zion Canyon Visitor Center, so the welcome plays before the bus leaves. Ride up the canyon; stories play by GPS as the bus stops at or rolls past each stop. The bus plays its own park narration; pause the tour if you want to hear it. If GPS drops between the canyon walls, tap the next story in the list. In your own car (when the shuttle isn't running, usually December to February): press Start at the visitor center and stop at each place on the way up.

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    Connect your Tesla account, then approve Plantrip in the Tesla app. Start sends the whole tour to the car's navigation while you're parked; narration plays from this phone through the car.

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    Facts from Zion National Park (NPS) pages, the NPS shuttle narration and geology guide, the University of Utah Sentinel landslide study, the FHWA shuttle case study and A History of Utah's American Indians (Tom and Holt); stop locations © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Music: Brahms, Symphony No. 3, III. Poco allegretto, Musopen Symphony (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons). Narration is AI-generated. Not an official National Park Service product.