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Mountain of the Sun is a 6,722-foot Navajo Sandstone summit in Zion National Park in southwestern Utah. East of Court of the Patriarchs and south of Zion Lodge, it rises about 2,500 feet above the lodge and the floor of Zion Canyon on the east side of the North Fork of the Virgin River. Surrounded by prominent landmarks such as The Sentinel, Mount Spry, The East Temple, and Mount Moroni, it is part of Zion’s notable sandstone landscape. Its name was officially adopted in 1934 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names. The mountain lies in a cold semi-arid climate with hot, dry conditions, limited rainfall, and generally light winter snowfall.
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