Canyonlands and Eastern Utah

9 backcountry hikes and 4WD trips in Canyonlands and the eastern regions of Utah; including Canyonlands and Arches National Parks.

Butler Wash Ruins

Butler Wash is a long creek with Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi) ruins scattered all along it. The BLM has created an ...
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Cave Springs Cowboy Camp

This is an Ancestral Puebloan (Anazasi) site that was also used by cattle ranchers to camp at. The site is ...
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Hovenweep – Square Tower Group

One of my favorite little national parks is Hovenweep National Monument. It is a quiet little area in the Four ...
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Montezuma Creek and the Three Kiva Pueblo

There are many small Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) ruins and Ute and Anasazi petroglyph sites scattered along Montezuma creek. Some are ...
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Mule Canyon Ruins

This is a remote Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi) ruin site with many ruined towers and cliff dwellings. I had read about ...
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Newspaper Rock

This is a large solitary panel in a nice shady canyon of eastern Utah. Petroglyphs from the Ancestral Puebloan (Anazasi), ...
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Owl Panel, Nine Mile Canyon

Hidden away in short side canyon of Nine Mile Canyon is this fantastic little petroglyph panel of owls. How often ...
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Robidoux Inscription and Pictographs

On a late autumn day in 1837, a fur trapper from Santa Fe, Antoine Robidoux, stopped along a narrow canyon ...
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Thompson Canyon Pictographs

The Thompson Canyon Pictographs site (also known as the Sego Canyon Pictograph site) is an impressive place. Large panels of ...
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Last Updated on January 29, 2021 by Guy Starbuck