Respect all wildlife. Do not feed them or disturb their natural activities. Adjacent Visitor Attractions Southern Utah abounds in outdoor recreational activities. Early Native Americans left little to tell us of their use of the plateaus. We know that people inhabited the Colorado Plateau region for about 12,000 years, but only random fragments of worked stone tell of their presence near Bryce Canyon.
Artifacts tell a more detailed story of use at lower elevations beyond the parks boundary.
Both Anasazi and Fremont influences are found near the park. The people of each culture left bits of a puzzle to be pieced together by current and future archeologists. Paiutes lived in the region when Euro-Americans arrived in southern Utah. The Paiutes were living throughout the area when Capt. Clarence E. Dutton explored here with John Wesley Powell in the 1870s.