Boulder, Utah
(435) 691-1241
(307) 733-4261
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TOURS Southern
Utah |
Upper
Calf Creek Half Day Hike - the route less traveled "This high, rugged, and remote region, where bold plateaus and multi-hued cliffs run for distances that defy human perspective, was the last place in the continental United States to be mapped. Even today, this unspoiled natural area remains a frontier." - Bill Clinton, President Proclamation for the GSENM, 1996  Upper Calf Creek is a spectacular slickrock basin carved in the Navajo
Sandstone. Although the route from Highway 12 to Upper Calf Creek Falls is
popular hike, our secret route will provide solitude in this wonderful
slickrock playland surrounded by beautiful landforms and microcosmic
desert gardens. Natural springs provide perennial water to Calf Creek with
lovely waterfalls and plunge pools. Water in the desert was also a gift to
prehistoric man who carved petroglyphs and painted pictographs on the
walls of a cool cave. Piles of ironstone concretions that have weathered
out of the sandstone have really weird shapes - we like to pretend that
they are scatter wreckage of prehistoric spaceship crash sites. This place
has so much to offer!Distance: about 3 miles round trip, more if you like. Difficulty: moderately difficult.  |
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