2 dead in apparent fall at Bryce Canyon National Park

TROPIC, Utah (KSL.com) — Two bodies have been recovered at Bryce Canyon National Park after investigators say the man and woman apparently fell off a cliff.

The bodies were found below Inspiration Point, on the northwest side of the park, and reported to law enforcement shortly before 2 p.m. Tuesday, but Garfield County sheriff’s spokesman Wade Mathews said investigators are not exactly sure when they died.

Investigators believe the fall happened at some point Monday night or Tuesday morning, the spokesman said. It appears the man and woman climbed over the railing near Inspiration Point and somehow went off the cliff, falling an estimated 380 feet, Mathews said.

The conditions at Bryce Canyon at the time were slick and wet from snow in the area, he said.

Mathews said Garfield County sheriff’s deputies worked with Bryce Canyon park rangers and the Utah Department of Public Safety helicopter crew to recover the bodies Tuesday afternoon.

The sheriff’s office has not released the couple’s identities, but Mathews said their last known residence was in Florida. He said it appears the two were living out of a U-Haul that was located near Bryce Canyon.