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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scenic Byway 12 stretches nearly 125 miles from Capitol Reef National Park (at Torrey, UT) to Panguitch, UT, meandering in and out of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument along the way.

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.

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.

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.

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.

(Bonnie Jo Mount | The Washington Post) Anton Foltin of Tucson photographs the Toadstool Hoodoos on Oct. 12, 2018 in an area that was removed from Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah.