The East Temple

The East Temple is a prominent Navajo Sandstone summit in Zion National Park in southwestern Utah, rising 7,709 feet near the meeting of Pine Creek and the North Fork Virgin River. One of the canyon’s notable landmarks, it stands near Twin Brothers and west of the higher West Temple within Zion’s dramatic landscape of sheer walls and monoliths. John Wesley Powell applied its name in 1872 during the period when many of Zion’s major formations were being recorded and named, and the U.S. Board on Geographic Names officially adopted it in 1934. Its first ascent came in 1937, and it remains a technical climbing objective with routes of varying difficulty.

Springdale, Utah · United States