Take the free park shuttle to the Temple of Sinewava, walk one mile to the end of the paved walkway, and begin hiking up the river. Two hours upstream, at the intersection with Orderville Canyon, hikers will encounter the narrowest and most spectacular section of the Zion Narrows.
Photograph by Mike Segar, Reuters Second City is back in second place, at least when it comes to height. New York's One World Trade Center will officially open next year as America's tallest building, topping Chicago's Willis Tower by 325 feet (99 meters). The distinction hinges on a definition. According to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, the needle atop the new trade center is a spire, not an antenna.
But the Height Wars have been around for the last 130 years! The term skyscraper was first applied in 1884 to the 42 meters high Home Insurance Building in Chicago. For the next 115 years, the worldâs tallest building was always in the United States.