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The Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument (GSENM) is a United States national monument protecting the Grand Staircase, the Kaiparowits Plateau, and the Canyons of the Escalante (Escalante River) in southern Utah.
View from Utah Highway 12 of Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument. The Grand Staircase is an immense sequence of sedimentary rock layers that stretches south from Bryce Canyon National Park and Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument, through Zion National Park, and into Grand Canyon National Park. [1]
English: Spooky Gulch, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA - a quick walk through the lower parts of Spooky Gulch, which is a slot canyon within the canyons of the Escalante of southern Utah. Video speed was increased by a factor of three.
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Centering on the canyons of the Escalante River, the proposed monument encompassed portions of present-day Canyonlands and Capitol Reef national parks, Natural Bridges and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments and Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. [1] The proposed national monument was to encompass about 4,500,000 acres (1,800,000 ha).
This area—extending over 1,500 square miles (3,885 km 2) and rising in elevation from 3,600 ft (1,097 m) to over 11,000 ft (3,353 m)—is one of the three main sections of the Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument, and also a part of the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, with Capitol Reef National Park being adjacent to the east.
The unpaved [12] road heads southeast into the national monument beginning at its intersection with Utah Scenic Byway 12 about 5 mi (8.0 km) east of Escalante. After traveling about 12 mi (19 km) along the Hole-in-the-Rock Road there is a road to the right leading to the Devils Garden area. [ 10 ]
Utah is appealing a federal judge's decision to toss out the state's latest case over the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments.