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Escalante Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Escalante, United States
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Tuesday 20 May
This is a top pick! Tuesday 20th May This morning we went exploring around the campsite. We cycled down the road a little, to a small store and then went for a walk up to the top of a ridge which gave us a great view of the area. It got pretty hot so we all went back for ...
Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument
This is a top pick! With Ramrod fixed we made it easily to Escalante. Once we found a supburb camp spot on the river and filling out the usual registration and depositing cash in a box, we took off for a waterfall after taping up my feet with huge amount of duct tape to try ...
Slot Canyons in Utah
We left Bryce Canyon and headed towards Escalante in search of slot canyons. Travelling along the bumpy 'Hole in the Rock' road, a dirt road, to get there I felt strangely tired. In fact, most people in the van fell slowly into a deep slumber. Turns out ...
Bryce Canyon
Bryce Canyon Nach einigen erholsamen Tagen in Las Vegas machten wir uns erneut auf den Weg einige Nationalparks zu erkunden. Erster Halt war der wunderschoene Bryce Canyon... wie Ihr Euch auf den Fotos ueberzeugen koennt.... :-))))) Nur schon ...
Calf Creek Falls hike
Bryce Canyon had so much to offer in terms of light, that we had to see it again for sunset yesterday & for sunrise today! On our way to Zion, we decided to see the recommended Calf Creek Falls. Not only was the waterfall pretty cool ...
Melting Rock
... 't a sunny day. We had left a couple days free, planning to be back country hiking overnight in the Escalante-Grand Staircase area in some lonely as yet undetermined canyon. With the rain turning the back country roads to ...
Just my luck.
Today started off really nice. We had a pancake breakfast over at Clarke's and then left shortly after. Chad's girlfriend has been joining us these past few days so they needed someone to drive their car over to the hotel while they drove. I ended up ...
Putting on the Pounds in Escalante
... dinner we made another discovery. We dined at the Hell's Backbone Grill in Boulder. Boulder claims to be the last town in the United States to have had the mail delivered by mule, well into the 1940's, when deliveries were made over the precipitous Hell's ...
Escalante
We drove scenic highway 12 around and through Escalante National Monument, through rain and snow (just a little bit of snow on the peaks). One memorable scene was a golden eagle perched atop a dead deer on the side of the road. Just like a National ...
Monument Valley
... make rattlesnake jokes now and then. Not that funny really. He is perfecting his rattlesnake imitation though. We stayed a night in Escalante in a cabin which reminds us of Little House on The Prairie, which is about 40 miles from Bryce Canyon, cos ...
unterwegs in Utah
Eigentlich war unsere Utah Rundfahrt völlig spontan geplant, doch wie sich herausstellen sollte, absolut lohnenswert. Wir waren uns erst nicht sicher, ob wir all diese Canyons und Steinlandschaften in Utah überhaupt besuchen sollten. "Die sind doch eh ...
Road Tripping in Injun Country
... Monument, Natural Bridges National Monument, Capitol Reef National Park. Other scheduled stops over the next week are at Escalante National Monument, Bryce Canyon National Park, Zion National Park, Glen Canyon Ntional Recreation Area, and the icing on ...
Day 10 - Arches NP
... road, grazing and relaxing. Our day of delicious meals was not over as the cooking crew, upon our arrival to Escalante SP, prepared a tasty Italian meal of Farfalle pasta in Pesto sauce with chicken. After enjoying our fabulous meal and evening ...
Escalante Petrified Forest State Park, Utah
... is considered the top scenic view route in the nation. It lives up to its reputation. Drove into Escalante Petrified Forest State Park just west of the town of Escalante (named after a Spanish Missionary, Father Escalante who explored ...
An interesting afternoon and evening...
... was hot like h...! lol.. Then again.. an hour on the crappy, shakey dirtroad. Phew! lol.. When we got back to the near town, Escalante we found us a small motel as it was dark when we got back. After checking in we went to this small bar to get something ...
Slot Canyons at Dry Fork
... before we hit the trail. The slot canyons were awesome, we spent the better part of the morning before heading back towards escalante. We, at this point, did not know where we were heading, so we figured we would stop for lunch and figure it ...
Burr Trail and eclipse
... Backway that winds its way through red rock canyons between Boulder and Lake Powell. It travels through Grand Staircase-Escalante, Capitol Reef and the Glen Canyon Recreation Area. The road was originally built as a cattle trail. ...
Laundry, work, internet, and site seeing
... doing laundry, catching up on work and mingling with high society trailer park members. After lunch we headed to the Escalante Petrified Forest. Although not THE petrified forest in the area, we saw impressive pieces of petrified wood. ...
drive through some of the most remote land in US
... of the biggest dinosaur fossil discoveries occurred. We took a side tour to a remote arch and did a 3 mile slot canyon hike in the Narrows. We then drove through Page, AZ to show Shaun the Lake Powell area. Grand Staircase - Escalante National ...
Three National Parks in One Day
... 's name is strange and its not nearly as beautiful as all the other places around it. Then we went to Grand Staircase-Escalante, which is not actually a National Park but instead a National Monument which is a sort of confusing distinction but pretty and ...
The bestest birthday (yet) - part 1
... /container complete with interpretive guides. http://www.everytrail.com/guide/lower-calf-creek-falls-in-grand-staircase-escalante-national-monument/map This had about 15 points of interest en route to the Falls; ...
Eine goldene Kuppel in der Wüste
... eines halbtrockenen Seitenarms und steigen schließlich vorsichtig in das erfrischend kalte, aber nur 20 Zentimeter tiefe Wasser des Escalante. Nach der Flussquerung sind wir im Neon Canyon und der Rest des Weges ist ein Kinderspiel. Wir ...
Red Canyon to the Devils Garden
We're back tracking, but this seemed like the perfect day for a hike thru the Red Canyon. The trail is narrow and the soil is like shell. With my lack of coordination and depth perception, I'm amazed that I made it thru with only one slight stumble. This ...
The Last Wilderness
... ’s for the tip! After we were stuffed, we jumped back in the car and on our way to the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument (GSENM for short). The GSENM protects 1.9 million acres and was the last place in the US to be mapped. There are ...
Kaleidoscope of Color Mystery Walk
... throughout this area and from which the state “Utah” derives its name; and Navajo, largest tribe now resident in the United States with a nation of over 300,000. In this way too, Utah is a kaleidoscope of color. Today’s walk, however, ...
Coyote Butte South
Since I didn't get a permit for Coyote Butte North at the yesterday yesterday, I picked up a permit for Coyote Butte South. If Coyote Butte North didn't have the Wave then everyone would want to go to Coyote Butte South but the way it is now, everyone ...
Bryce Canyon to Escalante
... I'd like and I was definitely more comfortable in the Chevy 4 x 4 that we rented two years ago. Well, we got to Escalante without incident, and checked into the Slot Canyons Inn, a beautiful place built only last year in the Southwestern style. The 10 ...
Grand Staircase, Red Rock, Bryce Canyon & Zion
... rocks and winding roads. We went to Arches National Park, to see all the natural windows. Then spent the next night in Escalante which is in the grand Staircase National Park. Driving through the park is scary, huge drops off the face off massive rock ...
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