Add Utah's Desolation Canyon to the list, a seemingly depressing destination that actually offers one of the best wilderness adventure vacations for families.

Desolation Canyon it remains today, or Deso, in the river runners’ fond shorthand. To my mind, and to those of my seven companions, there was nothing at all desolate about the canyon—it seemed ...

The agency says an estimated 6,000 visitors make the Desolation Canyon float trip, with 1,500 of those who take commercial trips and another 4,500 visitors who are private boaters that take ...

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has announced it is pulling auction parcels from an expanded oil-and-gas leasing program in Utah, including tracts inside Nine Mile Canyon and Desolation Canyon.

MOAB — Utah's scenic and diverse landscapes are an alluring backdrop for movie makers, and now the science- and thrills-based "MythBusters" has picked the Desolation Canyon area to film an ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — The Light House Canyon Fire had grown to cover 263 acres within the Desolation Canyon Wilderness area, in a recent update regarding the wildfire in Emery County.

YOU DON’T float the Desolation and Gray Canyons of the Green River for the rapids. You go for a blissfully mellow trip through remote wilderness. During a trip down the Green one recent fall, an ...

The Nine Mile Canyon located in the desert of eastern Utah is the world's longest art gallery in the world. This canyon boasts tens of thousands of petroglyphs and pictographs along a stretch of ...

The 47-year-old woman was first reported missing in Utah's Diamond Fork Canyon in November last year.

Evan Ray Nilsen, 70, recalled how he fought off a mountain lion that knocked him down a hill during a hike in Diamond Fork in Utah's Spanish Fork Canyon last week.

Two hikers were found dead and one has been rescued after authorities believe they were caught in a flash flood while trekking the popular Buckskin Gulch slot canyon in southern Utah.