Forbidding Canyon Arch

Bridge Canyon, the branch of Forbidding Canyon that leads to Rainbow Bridge, is the best known of Forbidding Canyon's tributaries. The bridge was long known to local Native people; in 1909 a party guided by John Wetherill and Nasja Begay became the first Anglo-Americans to reach it. Accounts by visitors such as Zane Grey and Theodore Roosevelt made it famous, but before the lake it took a long pack trip to get there, and fewer than 200 people signed the register in its first decade.

Good for

Natural AttractionsArch & Natural BridgeRock Formation

Elevation

3,829 ft (1,167 m)

Updated

11/1/2026