Deva Temple

Best Time to View It

Since viewing depends on North Rim access, check current seasonal status before planning a trip built around this formation — North Rim facilities and roads close seasonally.

Good to Know

• Deva Temple carries one of the mythological names assigned to Grand Canyon buttes in the naming tradition started by geologist Clarence Dutton in the 1880s, who thought the formations resembled temples and pagodas of Asian religious architecture; it was adopted officially in 1906.
• Its nearest higher neighbor, Brahma Temple, sits 1.5 miles to the south — look for both together.
• Morning and late-afternoon light bring out the contrast on the Coconino cap best.

Where to See Deva Temple

You don't hike to it — Deva Temple is a formation you view from a rim, most notably Bright Angel Point on the North Rim, where it appears in a lineup with neighboring Brahma and Zoroaster Temples.

What You're Looking At: Deva Temple

Deva Temple is one of the flat-topped buttes that rise from the inner canyon south of the North Rim, standing about three miles from Bright Angel Point and towering roughly 3,700 feet above Bright Angel Canyon. Its summit reaches 7,353 feet and is capped in cream-colored Coconino Sandstone, laid down as desert sand dunes some 265 million years ago, with a thin remnant of Kaibab Limestone on top.