Discover this 4.8-km loop trail near Bryce, Utah. Generally considered a moderately challenging route, it takes an average of 1 h 33 min to complete. This is a very popular area for hiking, so you'll likely encounter other people while exploring. The best times to visit this trail are March through October. You'll need to leave pups at home — dogs aren't allowed on this trail.

Featuring incredible views and unique rock formations, this hike is one of the best ways to experience the hoodoos and spires of Bryce Canyon National Park. This great trail takes you by some of the park’s most iconic features, including Queen Victoria and Thor’s Hammer.

You’ll start by hiking along the Navajo Loop Trail towards Sunset Point, where you’ll have fantastic views of the colorful canyon. You can choose to go to the right here and  venture through Wall Street, a narrow canyon. This route stays along the eastern side of the Navajo Loop Trail. After passing Thor’s Hammer and the Two Bridges, you will come to the trail junction for the Queens Garden, where you will see some of the most spectacular formations in the park. At Sunrise Point, you’ll turn left and return to the parking lot along the Rim Trail.

Along the Queen’s Garden Trail, you’ll have the opportunity to walk among the towering hoodoos and rocky formations. Hoodoos go through several stages throughout the course of their formation. First, water erodes the sides of rocky plateaus until they become fins. Once they are thinned out from significant erosion, holes form in their center, creating a window.  Finally, after further erosion, the top of the windows break away, leaving a hoodoo in its place. In Bryce, most erosion occurs from "frost wedging".  Rain seeps into cracks of the rocks, and when the temperature drops the water freezes and expands, which creates larger cracks in the rocks.