— Kachina Bridge is located in Natural Bridges National Monument, in southeastern Utah. The National Park Service (NPS) website describes this bridge as “the middle bridge.” The other two bridges are Owachomo and Sipapu. The middle bridge denomination comes from the fact that Kachina is equidistant from the other two bridges in that canyon. As with the other bridges, Kachina is also changing. Just as recently as June 1992, NPS reported that “approximately 4,000 tons of sandstone fell from the inside of the Kachina bridge opening.” Kachina was named because of rock art resembling symbols the Hopi commonly used on kachina dolls. One notable feature of Natural Bridges National Monument is that on March 6, 2007, the International Dark-Sky Association certified the park as the first International Dark Sky Park. This bridge dimensions are:
Height: 210 feet (64 meters)
Span: 204 feet (62 meters)
Width: 44 feet (13 meters)
Thickness: 93 feet (28 meters)
In the photo below, see if you can spot the people hiking. They are at the bottom of the photo, near center, in the open area between the trees lining the trail.
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