For paddlers, Escalante River Canyon offers the monument’s holy grail of adventure in a remote 73-mile self-supported kayak, packraft, or SUP excursion landing in Lake Powell.

Photo: Southwest Adventure Tours. No need to get permits. Southwest Adventure Tours is an authorized permittee of Bryce Canyon National Park and the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument ...

Escalante Canyon – When Spanish explorers Escalante and Dominguez set out on the first European expedition of the Great Basin in 1776, they were looking for a northern route between Santa Fe and ...

The small Bryce Canyon Airport is just four miles north of Bryce Canyon National Park, 48 miles from Escalante. Most visitors fly into Salt Lake City and rent a car for the amazing 294-mile drive ...

Kalen Thorien stands at the entrance to Ringtail Canyon, Escalante National Monument, Utah; Photograph by Max Lowe. We had made our way from Moab via the Burr Trail Road.

After this you'll face one of the largest challenges of the Escalante Route, climbing the Papago Wall. An almost vertical, roughly 30-foot rock face that requires some scaling.

FOX 13 News anchor Max Roth was camping in the Escalante area when he stumbled across the Escalante Canyons Arts Festival. Max tends to stumble on things because he likes to wander and hates to plan.

Rep. Chris Stewart reintroduced the Grand Staircase Escalante Enhancement Act (H. R. 8446), which aims to create Utah’s sixth national park, the Escalante Canyons Park and Preserve. Stewart ...

The Escalante Canyons were formed by an eponymous river and its tributaries. In between is the colossal Kaiparowits Plateau, stretching more than 50 miles between the town of Escalante and the ...