Bryce Canyon Airport

The hangar here is built of logs — ponderosa pine, notched and stacked like a pioneer cabin, for a building meant to shelter airplanes. Garfield County put it up in 1936 as a WPA project, the federal government paying part and local men donating the labor, all to fly tourists to Bryce Canyon — a national park since 1928, and still one of the hardest places in the country to reach. The first airmail left in 1938. The log hangar still stands, on the National Register now, and small planes still carry sightseers over the hoodoos.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mossy Cave Trail — 4.4 mi
  A hidden waterfall and ice cave just off the highway
• Bryce Canyon Lodge — 5.1 mi
  A 1925 National Historic Landmark perched on the canyon rim
• Tropic — 7.0 mi
  A quiet pioneer town in the shadow of Bryce Canyon
• Bryce Canyon National Park — 7.7 mi
  The largest collection of hoodoos on Earth

More markers nearby

• Tropic Pioneers — 6.6 mi
• Veterans Memorial Park — 6.7 mi
• Ebenezer Bryce Cabin — 6.7 mi
• Minerals in the Mesas — 12 mi