Tucupit Point is a prominent sandstone pinnacle in the
Kolob Canyons
Zion National Park is an American national park located in southwestern Utah near the town of Springdale. Located at the junction of the Colorado Plateau, Great Basin, and Mojave Desert regions, the park has a unique geography and a variety ...
area of
Zion National Park
Zion National Park is an American national park located in southwestern Utah near the town of Springdale. Located at the junction of the Colorado Plateau, Great Basin, and Mojave Desert regions, the park has a unique geography and a variety ...
in
Washington County,
Utah
Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to it ...
, United States.
Description
The formation lays off of
Taylor Creek Trail, and rises with a
prominence
In topography, prominence (also referred to as autonomous height, relative height, and shoulder drop in US English, and drop or relative height in British English) measures the height of a mountain or hill's summit relative to the lowest contou ...
of 138 feet. The pinnacle - visible from
U.S. Route 40 to the west - has been the subject of numerous photographs. American artist
Thomas Moran
Thomas Moran (February 12, 1837 – August 25, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School in New York whose work often featured the Rocky Mountains. Moran and his family, wife Mary Nimmo Moran and daughter Ruth too ...
viewed the pinnacle in 1873 while travelling south from
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City (often shortened to Salt Lake and abbreviated as SLC) is the Capital (political), capital and List of cities and towns in Utah, most populous city of Utah, United States. It is the county seat, seat of Salt Lake County, Utah, Sal ...
, with the artist later rendering a
famous watercolor of the feature. The pinnacle was then named "Colburn's Butte" after Justin Colburn, a correspondent for the ''
New York Times
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'' travelling with Moran; it would later be renamed Tucupit Point, "Tucupit" being the
Paiute
Paiute (; also Piute) refers to three non-contiguous groups of indigenous peoples of the Great Basin. Although their languages are related within the Numic group of Uto-Aztecan languages, these three groups do not form a single set. The term "Pai ...
word for
wildcat
The wildcat is a species complex comprising two small wild cat species: the European wildcat (''Felis silvestris'') and the African wildcat (''F. lybica''). The European wildcat inhabits forests in Europe, Anatolia and the Caucasus, while the ...
.
See also
*
List of mountains in Utah
Mountains in Utah are numerous and have varying elevations and prominences.
Kings Peak, in the Uinta Mountains in Duchesne County, Utah, is the highest point in the state and has the greatest prominence. It has elevation and prominence . It ...
*
Paria Point
Paria Point is a elevation summit located in the Kolob Canyons section of Zion National Park, in Washington County, Utah, United States. Tucupit Point is situated immediately north, and Beatty Point is immediately south, with 2,000-foot-deep f ...
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Beatty Point Beatty may refer to:
Places U.S. places
* Beatty, Nevada
* Beatty, Ohio
* Beatty, Oregon
* Beatty, Kentucky, now known as Beattyville
Other places
* Beatty, Saskatchewan, Canada
* Beatty, South Australia, Australia
* Mount Mary, South Australia, ...
References
External links
Landforms of Washington County, Utah
Landmarks in Utah
Rock formations of Utah
Zion National Park
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