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Hiking Grand Staircase-Escalante & the Glen Canyon Region: A Guide to the Best Hiking Adventures in Southern Utah

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Lace up your boots and sample the finest trails in southern Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante region and the stunning 1.2-million-acre Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. With thorough descriptions and detailed maps, this book leads you to both well-known and little-used trails. Whether traveling down remote desert roads or up serene canyons, you will be rewarded with vivid memories and a yearning to return.

ISBN-13: 9781493028832

Media Type: Paperback(Third Edition)

Publisher: Falcon Guides

Publication Date: 04-27-2018

Pages: 328

Product Dimensions: 6.10(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

JD Tanner and Emily Ressler are originally from the Midwest, but they have spent much of their “adulthood” traveling across the United States. Their educational backgrounds are in outdoor recreation and education and they have 20 years of combined outdoor education experience. Before writing for FalconGuides, they spent three years promoting responsible outdoor recreation as part of the Leave No Trace Traveling Trainer program. This unique opportunity gave them the opportunity to visit 48 states and work with a wide range of outdoor enthusiasts. Logging over 600 nights in a tent during that time, they visited almost 50 National Parks as they climbed, hiked, biked and paddled throughout the US. Their shared interest in wild places and their commitment to environmental education has provided them with the opportunity to work with people from all walks of life. When the two are not off teaching a course, you might find them searching for state highpoints, planning their next big adventure, hitting the trail for FalconGuides, or hanging out with their two favorite canines, Arnie and Aspen. They reside in Sparta, Illinois.

Table of Contents

The Hikes

Meet Your Guides viii

Acknowledgments ix

Before You Hit The Trail xi

About the Book xii

Howto use The Maps xv

Natural History xv

Conservation xix

Climate xxiv

Hazards xxvi

Permits and Regulations xxxiii

Camping xxxiii

Trail Finder xxxiv

Map Legend xxxviii

Cedar Mesa, Dark Canyon, and Hite 1

1 Mule Canyon 4

2 North Fork Mule Canyon 7

3 Owl Creek to Nevills Arch 9

4 Owl Creek-Fish Creek Loop 13

5 Road Canyon 17

6 Slickhorn Canyon, Access 1 21

7 Slickhorn Canyon, Access 4 26

8 Slickhorn Canyon, Access 6, Trail Canyon 30

9 Slickhorn Canyon, Access 6 to the San Juan River 34

10 Government Trail to Grand Gulch 40

11 Todie Canyon to Grand Gulch 44

12 Bullet Canyon to Grand Gulch 48

13 Kane Gulch Ranger Station to the Junction 53

14 Kane Gulch Ranger Station to Bullet Canyon Trailhead 57

15 Bullet Canyon Trailhead to Collins Spring Trailhead 63

16 Natural Bridges National Monument-Sipapu Bridge to Kachina Bridge 71

17 Natural Bridges National Monument-Owachomo Bridge to Kachina Bridge 76

8 Collins Spring Trailhead to The Narrows 80

19 North Wash to Marinus Canyon 84

20 Hog Springs Rest Area to Hog Canyon 87

21 North Wash to Stair Canyon 90

22 North Wash to Butler Canyon 94

23 Woodenshoe Trailhead to Dark Canyon 97

24 Woodenshoe-Peavine Loop 103

25 Big Notch to Scorup Cabin 109

26 Horse Pasture Trail to Scorup Cabin 114

24 Trail Canyon to Dark Canyon 118

28 Dark Canyon Plateau to Fable Valley 123

29 Sundance Trail to Dark Canyon 128

The Escalanie Canyons 133

30 The Gulch to Lamanite Arch 136

31 Silver Falls Creek 141

32 Boulder Mail Trail to Death Hollow 147

33 Upper Calf Creek Falls 152

34 Lower Calf Creek Falls 155

35 Escalante River Trailhead to Maverick Bridge and Phipps Arch 160

36 Escalante Natural Bridge 166

37 Harris Wash 169

38 Devils Garden 174

39 Hurricane Wash to Coyote Gulch 177

40 Fortymile Ridge to Sunset Arch 184

41 Fortymile Ridge to Coyote Gulch via Crack in the Wall 188

42 Willow Gulch Trailhead to Broken Bow Arch 192

43 Fiftymile Creek 197

44 Davis Gulch 202

45 Upper Escalante River 206

46 The Box 212

Grand Staircase/Paria Canyon 218

47 Kodachrome Basin State Park-Panorama Trail 220

48 Cottonwood Canyon Narrows 226

49 Yellow Rock/The Box of the Paria River 230

50 Willis Creek Narrows 236

51 Lick Wash 239

52 Lick Wash to No Mans Mesa 243

53 Mollies Nipple 248

54 Paria Movie Set to Starlight Arch 252

55 Wire Pass to Buckskin Gulch 257

56 Wire Pass Trailhead to White House Trailhead via Buckskin Gulch and the Paria River 261

57 Middle Route Trailhead to Cobra Arch 268

58 Middle Route to Buckskin Gulch 272

59 Paria Canyon-White House Trailhead to Lees Ferry 277

Hike Index 289