Zion National Park has discontinued permits for the hike through the Zion Narrows now that a private landowner has posted “no trespassing" signs in the world-famous canyon.
"Effective immediately, Zion National Park has stopped issuing Wilderness permits to hike the Zion Narrows from north to south ('top-down')," park officials wrote in a news statement Tuesday afternoon. "... Zion National Park hopes to work with the landowner to resolve this situation."
The 16-mile, one-way hike through the Virgin River Narrows is one of the most renowned in the park. It begins at the Chamberlain Ranch trailhead and cuts between towering cliff walls to the Temple of Sinewava trailhead at the end of the Zion Canyon Scenic Drive.