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 ...

You don't need to traverse the Grand Canyon to see the best of Arizona. This secluded paradise boasts lesser-known trails ...

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 ...

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.

President Donald Trump will shrink the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument by about half, to a size between 700,000 and 1.2 million acres, following the recommendation of his Interior ...

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.

Slot canyons like those of the Escalante River have two key characteristics that make them so unique: shape, and color. While massive gorges like the Grand Canyon provide monumental, awe-inspiring ...

THOSE WHO LIVE NEAR THE ESCALANTE canyons call their home “the country,” as if the canyon rims on the eastern horizon are the shores of an independent republic. “My family has always ranched ...

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 ...

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 ...