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Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument Information:
 Miles and miles of outstretched barrenland pierced only by the Escalante river and massive geologic folds and cliffs, the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is the ultimate experience in solitude. Where in other national parks, hikes and scenic sights are located off of a main scenic drive, attractions in the Grand Staircase-Escalante NM are few and far between, separated usually by miles and miles of dirt road.
Aside from the scattered towns with their minimal services, the region contains scenic jewels for the independent traveler. In the words of geologist Clarence E. Dutton, who surveyed the region with explorer John  Wesley Powell in 1880: is a maze of cliffs and terraces lined off with stratification, of crumbling buttes, red and white domes, rock platforms gashed with profound canyons, burning plains barren even of sage--all glowing with bright color and flooded with blazing sunlight." And possibly the most rugged and desolate place on earth. |
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