Current fee schedules are posted in the park. Cathedral Gorge is located 1 mile north of the intersection of US Highway 93 and State Route 319. The park sits at an elevation of 4,800 feet and is open year-round. The area is typically arid with hot summers and cold winters. Summer temperatures range from 95F at mid-day to 55F at night.
Rainfall is variable and thunderstorms are common.
Sediments and gravel settled on the lake floor. As the climate changed over centuries, the lake gradually drained, and erosion started working on the exposed sediments. Rainwater and melting snow carved rivulets in the siltstone and clay shale, working their way down and widening the cracks into gullies and canyons. Erosion is a constant process and also occurs through the actions of freezing and thawing, heat expansion and contraction, and evaporation of moisture from deep within the rock. Once compacted, soils cannot recover, and gullying takes place.