Escalante's namesake is one of its earliest visitors who passed through the region long before the community was actually established. When Franciscan missionary Silvestre Velez de Escalante was summoned to California in 1776 he carefully journaled his trip through the area now known as Escalante.
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Tropic, Utah – The Base of Bryce Canyon
Tropic, Utah sits at the base of Bryce Canyon National Park.
Tropic is the largest of three small ranching communities that make up the Bryce Valley area located just outside Bryce Canyon National Park. This little gem of a town is set amidst some of the most scenic southern Utah landscape
Escalante: A Place for Art
Boulder Utah – All Points of the Compass
Cannonville, Utah – Gateway to Grand Staircase
Escalante, Utah – All Directions
Paria Valley – Cannonville, Tropic, Henrieville
Things to Do in Escalante, Utah: A Historic Guide
Step back in time to the Cretaceous period when dinosaurs roamed the area designated as the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) first national monument — Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. This is just one segment in the history of Escalante, Utah that occurred millions of years ago as the