Travel Guide Snow Canyon State Park

This beautiful extinct volcanic site covers nearly 3,000 hectares of lava caves and volcanic cones that are 1,000 to 2,000 years old. A land occupied by the Anasazi from 200 BC to 1250, then by the Paiutes from 1250 until the middle of the 19th century. In fact, several petroglyphs have been found there.The status of State Park is attributed to the complex in 1959: baptized Dixie State Park, it is then renamed Lorenzo and Erastus Snow, from the name of the Mormons who discovered the place in 1861. Finally, it was named "Snow Canyon State Park".Several westerns were filmed there with Robert Redford, such as Butch Cassidy and the Kid (1969), The Electric Horseman (1979) and Jeremiah Johnson (1972).