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The Organ is a 5,080-foot Navajo Sandstone summit in Zion National Park in southwestern Utah. At the Big Bend near the north end of Zion Canyon, it rises about 700 feet above the canyon floor and the North Fork of the Virgin River. Its prominent setting places it among Zion’s best-known landmarks, including the Great White Throne, Cathedral Mountain, Angels Landing, Observation Point, and Cable Mountain. Its descriptive name likely came from its resemblance to organ pipes and is believed to have been given in 1916 by Rockville residents Claud Hirschi and Ethelbert Bingham during a trip with Methodist minister Frederick Vining Fisher. The U.S. Board on Geographic Names officially adopted the name in 1934.
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