Alaska is the largest state in the US by far. It is 663,000 square miles, compared to the second largest Texas at 269,000 square miles. The largest state in the union by area â¦ is Alaska, but it ranks 47th  by population among US states. The five largest states in the US are Alaska, Texas, California, Montana, and New Mexico.
The new name, Zion, had greater appeal to an ethnocentric audience.. The United States Congress established the monument as a National Park on November 19, 1919. The Kolob section was proclaimed a separate Zion National Monument in 1937, but was incorporated into the park in 1956.ion National Park includes mountains, canyons, buttes, mesas, monoliths, rivers, slot canyons, and natural arches. Human habitation of the area started about 8,000 years ago with small family groups of Native Americans; the semi-nomadic Basketmaker Anasazi (300 CE) stem from one of these groups.
Location: Zion National Park is located in southwest Utah, easy to reach from I-15 via UT Highway 9. Zion National Park is about 3 hours northeast of Las Vegas and about 5 hours southwest of Salt Lake City. Zion has two park entrances, both on Utah state Route 9. One is 33 miles east of Interstate 15 and the other is 12 miles west of U.S. 89.