Hole In The Rock

I’d Rather Be….. Hiking With Friends at Buckskin Gulch or Spooky?

This was from a few years ago but the same friends are visiting in a few weeks. Maybe Buckskin Gulch or Hole In the Rock Road’s Spooky Gulch.

Hiking in Buckskin Gulch at Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Utah

Spooky Gulch at The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah.

A Small Slice Of Lake Powell

Desert Southwest, Utah

Lake Powell has more shoreline than the United States’ entire Pacific Ocean Coastline. Approximately 2,200 miles of it. Pictured here are only a few miles of it but it’s pretty cool. The lake’s water level changes throughout the year as its primary source, the Colorado River, provides more water via snow melt in the Rockies.

Navajo Mountain and Lake Powell stand out in the desert landscape of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Utah

Eroded sandstone is the predominate feature along Lake Powell in the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Utah

Along “Hole In The Rock Road”

Desert Southwest, Flowers, Utah

This is a 54 mile dirt and gravel road that reaches Lake Powell and the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in Southern Utah. It should be named “Hole In The Head Road” because you must have one to finish this. It begins near the town of Escalante and The Escalante Grand Staircase National Monument. The end of the road is Hole In The Rock, where Mormon settlers used a small gap in the sandstone to reach the Colorado River and beyond in order to settle into Southeastern Utah (More On The Hole in a later post).