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Mount Kinesava is a 7,285-foot sandstone summit in Zion National Park above Springdale at the southern end of Zion Canyon. Rising about 3,400 feet above the town and canyon floor, it is a prominent landmark whose runoff feeds tributaries of the Virgin River. Officially named in 1934, it takes its name from Kinesava, a Paiute deity associated with trickery, tying the mountain to the region’s Indigenous cultural history. Its slopes display Zion’s layered geology, with sandstone from ancient dune fields deposited about 175 to 200 million years ago and a sequence of formations from Jurassic Navajo Sandstone down to the Chinle Formation near the base.
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