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Meridian Tower is a 7,340-foot Navajo Sandstone summit in Zion National Park, part of the Towers of the Virgin formation and a distinctive feature of Zion Canyon’s skyline. It rises about 3,350 feet above the canyon floor and the Virgin River, near several other prominent cliffs and towers. Zion’s third superintendent, Preston P. Patraw, named it for the 113th meridian crossing its flat top, and the U.S. Board on Geographic Names officially adopted the name in 1934. Although highly conspicuous, the summit was not first climbed until March 2016, when Dan Stih and Matt Mower reached the top.
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