It's at a high elevation, about 8,000 feet at the rim, and so that puts it at the top of the Grand Staircase, or the layer cake, so it's the frosting layer here.

Millions of years before human existence, much less monument designations, a colossal stairway laid its foundation on the northern rim of the Grand Canyon. Over time, tectonic shift exposed the ...

For more than 100 miles, as the Staircase climbs from south to north, from low elevation to high, it climbs also through time — 245 million years captured in the layers of rock.

Can You Drive Through Grand Staircase-Escalante? There are several roads that run through Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument allowing visitors to see the landscape and access trailheads.

<b>Escalante, Utah</b> • On the eastern end of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, narrow slot canyons shoot through the rocks in shades of terra-cotta red and pale peach. To the west ...

The lands proposed for removal from the monument contain swarms of vertical sandstone columns of rock that formed when earthquakes or impacts of giant meteors caused layers of sandy sediment to ...

Visitors of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah can expect some changes this year.

Frenchman mountain dolostone: 500 million-year-old grand canyon rock layer finally gets a name Geologists name ancient rock layer after Las Vegas mountain that contains similar strata Date: May 3 ...

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.

Priscilla Rattazzi is bringing a slice of southern Utah and the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument to bring attention to Trump's land cuts.

A diminished monument Trump cut Grand Staircase-Escalante nearly in half to spur a mining boom. But those lost protections may not yield big profits.

You can (and should) include Grand Staircase-Escalante during a week-long spin through southern Utah—hitting four of the country's most spectacular national parks in one shot. Given that Zion ...