Grand Staircase-Escalante NM

Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is a breathtaking and expansive protected area in southern Utah. Encompassing nearly 1.9 million acres, it boasts a landscape characterized by rugged canyons, towering cliffs, and colorful sandstone formations. It is located in the ancestral lands of the Puebloan and Fremont People, and their descendants, including people from the Hopi, Paiute, Zuni, Ute, and Navajo tribes. Some of the most remote land—and the last to be mapped—in the contiguous United States, the Monument protects the Grand Staircase, the Kaiparowits Plateau, and the Canyons of the Escalante (Escalante River). The monument is administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) as part of the National Conservation Lands system.