A unique inn at the Gateway to the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and Southern Utah's Canyon Country
115 West Main St./PO Box 575, Escalante, Utah 84726 * Toll-Free 1-866-455-0041 * Fax +1 (435) 826-4388 * Email info@VagabondBnB.com
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"Canyoneering is a term used to describe an adventure sport that combines hiking, wading, swimming, boulder hopping, rock climbing and rappelling. Some are calling it the next hot adventure sport." - American Canyoneering Society
The Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument's (GSENM) Canyons of the Escalante and the surrounding Canyon Country has an amazing array of canyons and slot canyons known world-wide, and has caught the imaginations of many over the years.
In fact, the pull of the canyons proved too great for one young idealistic artist, Everett Ruess. He had been exploring the canyons around here for years, becoming ever more taken by them. One day in the fall of 1934, he walked out of Escalante Town and into the Escalante Canyons for the last time. He was never heard from again; disappeared into thin air. Did he die in a fall? Murdered? Or simply choose to vanish forever into the canyons he was so smitten with--there have been numerous unconfirmed sightings over the years... Anyhow, Everett Ruess is a bit of a local folk here around here, and you can still read his journals and other writings...
"Once caught by this golden lure you become a prospector for life, condemned, doomed, exalted. One begins to understand why Everett Ruess kept going deeper and deeper into the canyon country, until one day he lost the thread of the labyrinth..." - Edward Abbey
We here at Escalante Outfitters support the canyoneering community, and provide a variety of different resources to help support your adventures here, including maps, guidebooks (or see below for few select titles), gear, lodging and sustenance for the journey.
Explore this page (still under development) to learn more about the canyoneering opportunities in the area.
A few pictures of Escalante's Canyons from the air:
For more pictures from this trip click here
The American Canyoneering Association is a non-profit association that promotes safe and responsible climbing. They have some great resources on techniques, safety, guides, etc. We recommend you check out their site if you haven't already.
The American Canyoneering Association also has available a freely downloadableCanyons Booklet, which is a great starting point for making your trip into Utah's canyon country safe and enjoyable. We highly recommend it.
Canyoneering.com is a canyoneering website with information on canyoneering techniques, gear, a user's forum, image gallery, and more.
Here is a link to their photo gallery of Escalante area canyoneering.
We stock a variety of canyoneering guide books including:
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874804671 | Canyoneering - The San Rafael Swell | Steve Allen | Guidebook and maps to over 63 trips in the San Rafael Swell. | $19.95 |
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874804671 | Canyoneering 2 - Technical Loop Hikes in Southern Utah | Steve Allen | Canyoneering guidebook featuring 7 different multi-day, semi-technical canyoneering trips in southern Utah, including routes in the San Rafael Swell, two in the Dirty Devil River area, White & Gravel Canyons, Dark Canyon, and two in the Escalante area. 233 pages. | $xx.95 |
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xxx | Canyoneering 3 - Loop Hikes in Utah's Escalante | Steve Allen | Canyoneering guide and maps to over 37 hiking/backpacking trips in the Escalante Canyons. 368 pages. | $19.95 |
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944510205 | Technical Slot Canyon Guide to the Colorado Plateau | Michael Kelsey | This book is unique in that every canyon described requires the use of ropes and rappelling to get all the way through. There are hundreds of maps and pictures,as well as directions and descriptions of the many small canyons available for exploration. | $13.95 |
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944510167 | Canyon Hiking Guide to the Colorado Plateau, 4th ed. | Michael Kelsey | This is a hiking guide to the canyons of the Colorado Plateau. The Colorado Plateau is a large physiographic region which roughly covers the southeastern half of Utah,the northern half of Arizona,the western fifth of Colorado and a small area in the northwestern corner of New Mexico. There is a description of each hike,including elevations,main attractions,trail or route conditions,and author's experience. Maps and photographs are also included. | $14.95 |
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874806313 | Hiking the Escalante | Rudi Lambrechtse | This is a wilderness guide to the canyons of the Escalante-Grand Staircase National Monument and of the adjoining Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. This book includes directions to the trailhead,how to follow a particular route with choices of side canyons along the way,and occasional alternate endings. | $11.95 |
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