Hurricane Cliffs

Hurricane Cliffs
Cliffs (west edge of Kaibab Limestone)
Hurricane Cliffs at Hurricane, Utah
Country	United States
States	Utah, Arizona
Counties	Iron County, UT, Washington County, UT, Mohave County, AZ
Borders on	Interstate 15-W & NW
Communities (west foothills)	Paragonah, Parowan, Summit, Enoch, Cedar City, Hamilton Fort, Kanarraville, Pintura, Anderson Junction, Toquerville, La Verkin, Hurricane, Mount Trumbull (site), AZ

The Hurricane Cliffs of southwest Utah and northwest Arizona are a red, limestone geographic feature, sets of cliffs along the western, eroded edge of the Kaibab Limestone; the cliffs are about 135-mi (217 km) long, and begin at the north-northwest of the Grand Canyon.

The Hurricane Cliffs are part of the landforms on the southwest perimeter of the Colorado Plateau, specifically the High Plateaus section; the High Plateaus are transitional to the Great Basin northwest, the Mojave Desert west, and the Arizona transition zone, southwest and south of the Coconino Plateau.

From Arizona, the cliffs trend north into Utah, but north of Hurricane, at Anderson Junction and Pintura, the trendline turns north-northeast, and by Cedar City, Cedar Valley, Summit, and the Parowan Valley, the trend is northeast. At the northeast end of Parowan Valley, which is the Tushar Mountains, the Hurricane Cliffs end.

Interstate 15 follows the foothills of the Cliffs from its north terminus, southwest through Parowan Valley, the townsites of Paragonah-Parowan, and leaves the cliffs at Anderson Junction and Toquerville.

The Old Spanish National Historic Trail descends from the north Markagunt Plateau through the Hurricane Cliffs into Parowan Valley just north of Paragonah. Adjacent south at Summit, and Enoch in northeast Cedar Valley, the Black Mountains narrow at the pass between the Hurricane Cliffs, and a mountain ridgeline, to only 1-mi; the Old Spanish Trail traversed through the pass then crossed west through the center-north of Cedar Valley.