Here is a map of our Southwest USA road trip ... particularly if you plan to explore some of the slot canyons in Grand ...

And then there’s the Burr Trail – starting as pavement and transitioning to graded dirt, it winds through slot canyons and across open desert before dramatically descending a series of switchbacks ...

Beginner-friendly alternatives The Peek-A-Boo and Spooky Gulch loop near Escalante in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is one of the most popular beginner-friendly options.

A different kind of hiking Other slot canyons: Southern Utah has other tight-squeeze slot canyons, including Spooky Gulch within Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.

Beginner-friendly alternatives The Peek-A-Boo and Spooky Gulch loop near Escalante, Utah, in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is one of the most popular beginner-friendly options.

Celebrate National Trails Day with some of the best hikes in the U.S.—from slot canyons to grassland wanders to secluded beaches.

In the slot canyons of Utah are canyoning challenges that can drive an unwary traveller to the edge of fear and over into joy. An intrepid tale from the Grand Staircase-Escalante ...

In the end, Interior shrunk two monuments — Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante in Utah, although they were downsized by well over 50% each.

Coal is one of several resources found at Grand Staircase-Escalante, according to Jacqualine Grant, geoscientist and executive director of Grand Staircase Escalante Partners.

During the last Trump administration, the president rolled back protections for Utah’s Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments, but former President Joe Biden added them back.

Coal is one of several resources found at Grand Staircase-Escalante, according to Jacqualine Grant, geoscientist and executive director of Grand Staircase Escalante Partners.

“They opened up Grand Staircase under the previous [Trump] administration and the coal market did not rush in, the oil and gas market did not rush in, nobody rushed in,” said the Wilderness ...