Hole-In-The-Rock Escalante Heritage Center - Escalante, UT - 2014
Dedication for the new Escalante/Hole-in-the-Rock Heritage Center was May 28, 2011, Memorial Day weekend. The new center offers information on the Hole-In-The-Rock/San Jan Expedition as well as murals by local artist Lynn Griffin depicting the journey down through the hole. Visit the center's small cabin and watch The Journey of the San Juan Pioneers, an overview of the Hole-in-the-Rock trek 1879-1880. There is also a clean restroom, picnic areas and a large parking lot for cars and buses. The sight is wheel chair accessible.
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Driving Utah State Route 12 – Part 2 of 4 – Boulder to Escalante
It’s time to relax and leave the driving to us as we cruise through miles of scenery in south central Utah along State Route 12.
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From Boulder we traveled 29 miles southwest to Escalante, crossing the The Hogsback, a narrow ribbon of highway along the top of a thin stretch of mountain with steep drop offs on either side. As anxiety-provoking as the few minutes on The Hogsback were, the views are incredible of striped mountains and a deep, green valley below.
Soon the mountains give way to a rolling landscape where each turn in the road opens up new sights for the eyes. Along the way there is a certain rhythm to the drive, speeding along at 60-70 miles per hour until you come to a small town where you slow down to 30-40, then the town passes by and the speed increases again until the next small town. It’s a pleasant rhythm.
When we reach Escalante we pulled into the Hole-In-The-Rock Heritage Center to stretch our legs. The view of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument from the parking lot was like a wide-screen panorama.
Make sure to check out Part 1 and 3-4.
Filmed on May 25, 2019. The day was a mixture of sun and clouds, and unfortunately we occasionally get a bit of glare and reflections on the windshield...
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Music by various artists from bensound.com and the YouTube music library. Used with permission.
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Escalante Ruins
Slideshow of the Escalante Ruins trail
Escalante cabins and RV Park
Map link so you can see how far out in the wilderness we are. Escalante Cabins & RV Park
680 W Main St, Escalante, UT
BOULDER MAIL TRAIL MAY 2018 (RE-EDIT) GRAND STAIRCASE ESCALANTE
BACKPACKING GRAND STAIRCASE ESCALANTE BOULDER MAIL TRAIL/ESCALANTE RIVER (TRAIL) EAST END WITH ARCHES
Escalante Interagency Visitor Center: Hot Spots and Leave No Trace
Across the nation, the Escalante region is one of twenty places chosen as a hot spot. Recreation use has increased dramatically in this area. Leave No Trace employees implemented sessions to business owners, agency employees as well as the public about recreation principles for cleaning up after yourselves, leaving green footprints, etc. The focus was on 7 principles of leave no trace.
Escalante Days, Dolores, Colorado 2014
Escalante Days Dolores, Colorado 2014
Utah Cliff Dwellings and Arches
The Dominguez - FULL DOCUMENTARY
The Dominguez is a powerful and revealing documentary that tells the story of one family that helped shape the history of Los Angeles and California. In 1784, the Dominguez family was given the first land grant in all of California, called Rancho San Pedro, which covered 75,000 acres southwest of Los Angeles.
Pioneers in a region once controlled by Spain, the Dominguez dealt with California changing hands to the Mexican government and then to the United States, facing all kinds of challenges in the process. Floods, earthquakes and even a battle fought on their property during the Mexican-American War, were some of the obstacles they overcame.
The Dominguez were instrumental in writing the first Constitution for the state of California, and they put Los Angeles on the world map and made aviation history in the twentieth century. The documentary is dynamic and full of rich history, and combines never-before-seen interviews with historians, community leaders and family descendants.
The Dominguez legacy remains strong today and proves that if an individual can affect the course of history, we all can do something to make this world a better place.
Original Music by: Jorge Alberto Sanchez
Narrated by: Hector Diego Medina
Produced by: Katie Skow and Ricardo Villarreal
Directed by: Ricardo Villarreal
Dirt Biking the Hole in the Rock Trail
4 old guys dirt bike the Hole in the Rock Trail from the East, following the trace of the Mormon expedition from Escalante to Bluff, Utah. See my previous video Escalante Staircase SE Utah for the route on the West side of the Colorado River.
Southwest Petroglyphs by Teyjah
- These modern cave paintings are inspired by the petroglyphs of the ancient Anasazi people, forebears of the Hopi, Zuni and Havasupai people. They lived in what is today called the United States Four Corners region: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah.
Rock art infused with mysterious symbolism can be found on mountainside panels, rocky outcrops and caves all through this area, particularly around the V-Bar-V petroglyph site, Newspaper Rock, Moab Area Rock Art Sites, and Petroglyph National Monument. The Great Basin of Nevada and California are also home to a great deal of petroglyphs.
Artist Teyjah McAren is a full-time professional artist, teacher, lecturer, curator and owner of her own gallery in Salmon Arm, British Columbia, called Teyjah's Art Den. The gallery is recognized for its museum-quality original works of art in acrylics, watercolor, and mixed media.
Teyjah's newest work is based on symbols and petroglyphs from existing cave walls and rock art. She is inspired by the mythology behind these ancient pictograms and cave drawings.
Through this exploration of cave art in acrylic gels, collage, and mixed media she tries to answer the question of what the ancients were trying to tell us. Learn more about the artist and the story behind her modern cave paintings.
East Side of Hole in the Rock Trail - ATV and Camping - San Juan County
The Hole in the Rock Trail is one of the most historic and difficult trails in the west. This video explores ATVing and camping on the eastern half of the Hole in the Rock trail in San Juan County just 43 miles out from Lake Powell.
Technical trail
About Trail
Pioneers took this trail from Escalante. Over 40miles long one way. Start out on well marked gravel roads for 10 - 15 miles which heads into the technical parts, on of which being Grey Mesa.
Trail is remote with few crowds.
How to Prepare to Camp the Hole in Rock Trail:
Make sure have tools, spare tires, water and Food. Bring what you can to be comfortable.
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Camp LIA: Summer Adventure in Moab
Sixteen urban Latino high school students from Utah kicked off their summer vacation with an unforgettable Take It Outside! weekend adventure on the Colorado River near Moab.
The students slept out under the stars, braved high water runoff, and crushed Class I-II rapids on an overnight river raft trip provided by BLM-Utah, in partnership with Latinos In Action (LIA) and O.A.R.S. Canyonlands, Inc.
Mentors from LIA, the BLM, U.S. Forest Service, and Friends of Arches and Canyonlands Parks shared their insights about education paths and careers in natural resources. The O.A.R.S. river guides demonstrated the value of respecting the environment, looking out for each other, and how to take care of themselves outdoors. Five students from Logan High School were honored with internships to participate as peer leaders.
The students—many of whom had never been camping before-- became fast friends as they shared an action-packed, multi-day outdoor experience. The participants camped and hiked on public lands managed by the BLM-Utah's Moab Field Office; exploring red rock canyons, discovering desert wildlife, and even studying dinosaur tracks.
The learning and fun will continue throughout the summer with Camp LIA day trips to recreation areas in northern Utah, thanks to a partnership with outdoor leadership school Splore. Recreational opportunities include paddle boarding and rock climbing.
All this comes about from cooperation among a team of incredible partners: Latinos In Action; O.A.R.S. Canyonlands, Inc.; Friends of Arches and Canyonlands Parks; National Park Service, Rivers, Trails, and Conservation Assistance Program; The Outdoor Foundation; Utah State University; US Forest Service Uintah-Wasatch-Cache; Bureau of Reclamation Upper Colorado Region, and Splore.
Hole in the Rock Road
The 4WD portion of Hole in the Rock Road, Escalante, Utah.
Capital Reef National Park - Utah - 2014
Capitol Reef National Park is a United States National Park, in south-central Utah. The park is approximately 60 miles (97 km) long on its north–south axis but an average of just 6 miles (9.7 km) wide. The park was established in 1971 to preserve 241,904 acres (377.98 sq mi; 97,895.08 ha; 978.95 km2) of desert landscape and is open all year with May through September being the highest visitation months.
Located partially in Wayne County, Utah, the area was originally named Wayne Wonderland in the 1920s by local boosters Ephraim P. Pectol and Joseph S. Hickman.
Capitol Reef National Park was initially designated a National Monument on August 2, 1937 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in order to protect the area's colorful canyons, ridges, buttes, and monoliths; however, it was not until 1950 that the area officially opened to the public. Easy road access only came in 1962 with the construction of State Route 24 through the Fremont River Canyon.
The majority of the nearly 100 mi (160 km) long up-thrust formation called the Waterpocket Fold—a rocky spine extending from Thousand Lake Mountain to Lake Powell—is preserved within the park. Capitol Reef is the name of an especially rugged and spectacular segment of the Waterpocket Fold by the Fremont River.
The park was named for a line of cliffs of white Navajo Sandstone with dome formations—similar to the white domes often placed on capitol buildings—that run from the Fremont River to Pleasant Creek on the Waterpocket Fold. The local word reef refers to any rocky barrier to land travel, just as ocean reefs are barriers to sea travel.
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360 View from Escalante Pueblo, Dolores CO
Bonnie finds a serene spot. Notice the rubble at the beginning of the clip. It is from the Pueblo walls atop this beautiful site. At the near end is the ruins and finishes with a closeup of the San Juan snow covered peaks.
Mormon Pioneer National Heritage Area
- History, Scenery, and Stories of the Mormon Pioneer National Heritage Area, Including: The Panguitch Quilt Walk, Hole-in-the-Rock, Spring City Art, Wasatch Academy, Capital Reef National Park, Fruita, Robert Leroy Parker (Butch Cassidy), Jewish settlement Clarion.