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Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah is the undisputed champ of America’s national monuments. ... Hoodoo rock formations in the Devil’s Garden off Hole-In-the-Wall Trail.
But for many travelers, Utah's most vibrant landscape is not administered by the National Park Service at all. Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is a large and complex expanse of land in ...
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument spans 1.87 million acres of central Utah stretching from the boundary of Bryce Canyon National Park in the west to the boundary of Capitol Reef National ...
After a long drive from Page, Ariz., then a four-mile hike, Wes Bell of Gresham photographed a 30-foot tall hoodoo at sunrise in Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
Where Is Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument? Sprawled across a good portion of southern Utah—and expanded in 2021 by the Biden administration to 1.87 million acres (larger than Delaware ...
The Complete Guide to Bryce Canyon National Park, From Hikes and Hoodoos to Heavenly Stargazing. Eugene ... and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument are all within about 200 miles of ...
The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument sees millions of visitors each year who come to hike, see Native American art and dinosaur fossils, and is a wealth of information for scientists.
In addition to reducing Grand Staircase-Escalante, designated by President Bill Clinton in 1996, Trump shrank Bears Ears National Monument, which President Barack Obama designated the month before ...
When President Donald Trump lopped more than 800,000 acres from Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in 2017, some D.C. politics watchers probably pulled out their maps.
The Utah national monument is huge — 1.9 million acres — and contains many sights — arches, waterfalls, slot canyons — and many of the rock layers date to the time of the dinosaurs.
Shortly after Grand Staircase-Escalante was illegally reduced, the BLM released management plans for the three smaller monument units and the lands cut out of the original monument. From encroaching ...