Coyote gulch Offline#

Coyote gulch Offline#

I had also downloaded Utah as an offline map on the free smartphone app and found that they had all of the major arches in the gulch already plotted in the app. With those, I found the trail easy to follow. Each time I reached one, I could see another in the distance. The trail is marked by rock cairns, which are stacks of rocks to help guide your way. I have a bad sense of direction - I’m talking no internal compass at all people - and I didn’t get lost! It ended up being 12 miles and took up most of the day, particularly since I stop so often to film and take photos.īefore embarking on this trail, I’d read that it’s hard to find in places, but I didn’t have any trouble. Since I wanted to do Coyote Gulch in one day, and I was solo without a friend to drop me off at one end of the gulch and pick me up at the other, I did this as an out-and-back hike to Jacob Hamblin Arch (or the ‘sneaker route’ or the water tank trailhead). It sounds tougher than it is, though, so don’t worry! The Route Turns out that it is doable in one day and it’s one of the best hiking experiences I’ve had! You just have to do a bit of trail finding and scale a 250-foot rock face to get down. I didn’t have the gear with me for an overnight hike, or the time. So I decided to just go and try out the ‘sneaker route’ and hope for the best. Most of them involve at least one overnight in the canyon and potentially a 4×4 road as well. There are four different entry points for Coyote Gulch.

The beauty is in the remoteness and the freedom to enjoy it, as well as the associated self-reliance. It’s more rugged as well, without the paved roads, busses, and crowds of the national parks but without the amenities, maintained trails, and services, either. An outdoor enthusiast’s dream with hiking, rock climbing, bouldering adventures, 4×4 roads, and wide open spaces, you can climb all over and it’s free camp. This is a massive sequence of sedimentary rock formations stretching almost 2 million acres from Zion to the Grand Canyon. This is what I found at Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument in Utah. Now picture it all to yourself, with the occasional other hiker passing by with a friendly wave or a hello, equally blown away by the incredibly talented mother nature. It seems like it should be raging but instead, it just coasts right through, leading you from adventure to adventure. Picture giant orange archways with a lazy, low river running through – the very same river that carved this incredible landscape over millions of years.