Kolob Arch

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Kolob Arch.

Kolob Arch is a natural arch located in Zion National Park in the U.S. state of Utah.

According to some methods of measurement it is the longest known natural bridge in the world, a title which it must compete with Landscape Arch to claim. Part of the problem stems from the method in which one measures the span, or length, of a natural arch. Both the methodology and technique may vary from one source to the next, and in some arches this may produce varied results. Although three different measurements of the arch all produced different lengths, the average of the results is 294 feet (89.6 m), edging out Landscape Arch by four feet (1.2 m).

Kolob Arch can be reached via one of two hiking trails, either of which is seven miles (11 km) long and results in a round trip of fourteen miles (22 km). The arch can also be reached from Ice Box Canyon, a canyoneering route in this section of Zion National Park. The arch is set close to a cliffside that it frames.

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