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Red Arch Mountain is a 5,930-foot Navajo Sandstone summit in Zion National Park, rising about 1,700 feet above Zion Lodge and the floor of Zion Canyon beside the North Fork Virgin River. Its official name was adopted in 1934 and refers to a blind arch on the mountain’s northwest face that formed when a rock avalanche crashed into the valley in 1880. That slide buried the Gifford farm in rubble, though the family survived because they were away at church in Springdale. Surrounded by formations such as Mount Majestic, Cathedral Mountain, and the Great White Throne, it is a prominent part of Zion Canyon’s dramatic central landscape.
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