Long Canyon Slot

Rating: 
Round Trip Distance: 0.3 miles
Difficulty: Easy
Elevation: 5614 - 5632 feet
Cellphone: 0 bars
Time: 15 mins.
Trailhead: Burr Trail Road
Fee: none
Attractions: Very short slot canyon

The Long Canyon Slot trail is located in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument east of Boulder, Utah on the Burr Trail Road. The trail is on the list of short day hikes on the GSENM website. Although not as narrow as many of the popular slot canyons that a normal sized adult can barely squeeze through this short canyon does give visitors some of the same feelings of being surrounded by high cliffs in a confined environment.

Upper Calf Creek Falls

Rating: 
Round Trip Distance: 2.4 miles
Difficulty: Strenuous
Elevation: 5917 - 6519 feet
Cellphone: 0-3 bars
Time: 1 hr. 15 mins.
Trailhead: Highway 12 MM 80.8
Fee: none
Attractions: Waterfall, potholes

The Upper Calf Creek Falls trail is located in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument between Boulder and Escalante, Utah. The trail to the upper falls sees only a fraction of the hikers as that of the more popular Lower Calf Creek Falls that is located about 2.5 miles downstream. With over 600 feet of elevation change, spread out over 1.2 miles, the Upper Calf Creek Falls might seem to require substantially more effort to hike. The difference is a lot of effort in a short distance (Upper Calf Creek Falls) compared to a moderate effort over a longer distance (Lower Calf Creek Falls). Fewer hikers can make the upper falls more preferable to those seeking a little more solitude.

20 Mile Dinosaur Tracks

Rating: 
Round Trip Distance: 0.5 - 1.2 miles
Difficulty: Easy
Elevation: 5260 - 5378 feet
Cellphone: 0 bars
Time: 1 hr.
Trailhead: Twentymile Wash
Fee: none
Attractions: Dinosaur trackway

The Twenty Mile Dinosaur Trackway is located in the Hole in the Rock Area of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument near Escalante, Utah. The site consists of over 350 individual dinosaur tracks most of which were made by plant eating sauropods. Also present are a few three-toed or theropod tracks that would have been made by a predator such as an allosaurus.

Devil's Garden

Rating: 
Round Trip Distance: 0.5 miles
Difficulty: Easy
Elevation: 5267 - 5295 feet
Cellphone: 0-3 bars
Time: 30 mins.
Trailhead: Devil's Garden
Fee: none
Attractions: Arches and hoodoos

Devil's Garden is located along the Hole in the Rock Road in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument near the town of Escalante, Utah. The area consists of colorful hoodoos and goblins as well as two scenic arches, Metate Arch and Mano Arch. Various social trails invite visitors to walk among the hoodoos and explore the wonders that thousands of years of erosion have created.

Cedar Wash Arch

Rating: 
Round Trip Distance: 0.6 - 1 miles
Difficulty: Easy
Elevation: 5709 - 5788 feet
Cellphone: 0-3 bars
Time: 30 mins.
Trailhead: Cedar Wash Road
Fee: none
Attractions: Natural arch

The Cedar Wash Arch is located off of the Cedar Wash Road southeast of the town of Escalante, Utah in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. The arch is in the cliffs above Cedar Wash. The trail to the arch takes hikers to a point along the top of the cliff where they can look down on the arch from above.