Grand Staircase Escalante National Park

The grand staircase is an immense sequence of sedimentary rock layers that stretch south from bryce canyon national park through zion national park and into the grand canyon. Grand staircase escalante national monument a delaware sized museum of sedimentary erosion that walks you down through a 200 million year old staircase of animals thats us minerals and vegetables aka the longest slowest front porch ever. Grand staircase escalante national monument flickr album the monument is an outstanding biological resource spanning five life zones from low lying desert to coniferous forest.
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Grand staircase is the westernmost section of the monument and is most easily accessed from tropic cannonville or henrieville near kodachrome basin state park on highway 12also known as scenic byway 12 and kanab or big water on us.

This houses a visitor information center as well as the combined offices for the dixie national forest the grand staircase escalante national monument and the escalante subdistrict of glen canyon national.

Grand staircase escalante national park. If you book with tripadvisor you can cancel up to 24 hours before your tour starts for a full refund. Deep within this vast and austere landscape the anasazi and fremont cultures made contact in the period ad 950 1100 leaving behind rock art panels occupation sites campsites and granaries. Were central to grand staircase escalante national monument and within walking distance of restaurants shopping and the national monument visitor center yet being on the edge of town invites the local deer population to travel through the rv park on a regular schedule. The allure of the grand staircase region the bulk of which is contained in the grand staircaseescalante national monument is phenomenal.

The grand staircaseescalante national monument gsenm is a united states national monument originally designated in 1996 as 1880461 acres 7610 km 2 of protected land in southern utahin 2017 the monuments size was reduced by a succeeding presidential proclamationthe land is among the most remote in the country. The grand staircase escalante monument takes its name from a series of plateaus extending over nearly 19 million acres that descend like stair steps from bryce canyon in southwestern utah to the. Scenic byway 12 or on highway 89. We recommend booking grand staircase escalante national monument tours ahead of time to secure your spot.

See all 10 grand staircase escalante national monument tours on tripadvisor. This area boasts a mixture of c olorful sandstone cliffs soaring. It was the last to be mapped in the contiguous united states. Sun drenched utah backcountry spreads out well beyond the visible horizon from the road whether youre traveling along the the all american road.

In the 1870s geologist clarence dutton first conceptualized this region as a huge stairway ascending out of the bottom of the grand canyon northward with the cliff edge of each layer forming giant steps. The escalante interagency office is located on the west side of town. We are the newest rv tent cabin camping in escalante utah and open from march 1st through november 30th.