Grand Staircase Escalante - Utah

Address:Kanab, Utah
Tel: (435) 644-4300

The stunning Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument was declared a National Park in 1996 by President Bill Clinton. Park highlights include the slot canyons of Peekaboo, Spooky, and Brimstone Canyons, and the backpacking areas of Coyote Gulch and Harris Wash, all found in the Canyons of the Escalante. But it doesn't stop there. The park is home to fossils, prehistoric dwellings, and some of the most interesting and unique rock formations in the country. You will see examples of all of these while visiting Devils Garden, Wolverine Bench, the Esclanate River area, Mollies Nipple (yes, that's really what it's called), and White Cliffs.
The park offers sensational red-hued desert scenery, short hikes, more-challenging multi-day options, and boating in the Escalante River among other activities.

Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument's vast and austere landscape embraces a spectacular array of scientific and historic resources. This high, rugged, and remote region, where bold plateaus and multi-hued cliffs run for distances that defy human perspective, was the last place in the continental United States to be mapped. Even today, this unspoiled natural area remains a frontier, a quality that greatly enhances the monument's value for scientific study. The monument has a long and dignified human history: it is a place where one can see how nature shapes human endeavors in the American West, where distance and aridity have been pitted against our dreams and courage. The monument presents exemplary opportunities for geologists, paleontologists, archeologists, historians, and biologists.