№ 038 · Listed
Trade · Restaurant / Hospitality
Location · Kanab
Status · Listed in 435 Alliance

Restaurant / Hospitality

Coral Cliffs Tours and Townhomes

Kanab · Listed in the 435 Alliance — a Southern Utah register of vetted, locally owned businesses.

Coral Cliffs Tours and Townhomes runs at 848 Country Club Drive in Kanab — the address that sits a short drive from the Kanab Country Club and within an hour of the network of slot canyons and high-clearance trails that have made the town a base camp for Wave-permit holders and Peekaboo-Slot-Canyon visitors. The operation is paired in an unusual way: a slot-canyon tour company on one side, four townhomes on the other, both run by the same small family operation. Guest reviews reference Julie as the primary operator, though her surname has not surfaced in indexed sources.

Tours to Peekaboo, the Wave, and White Pocket

The tour side of the business takes guests to three of the corridor’s most-requested locations: Peekaboo Slot Canyon — distinct from the Peekaboo Canyon Wood Fired Kitchen also in town, same toponym, different operators — plus the Wave on the Coyote Buttes North side, and White Pocket farther southeast on the Vermilion Cliffs. The Wave permit lottery makes that destination especially complicated for visitors to reach independently; the tour format gives Coral Cliffs guests the high-clearance vehicles and route knowledge needed to navigate the back roads. The slot canyons and pockets all sit on the broader Vermilion Cliffs and Grand Staircase landscape that defines Kane County’s tourism identity.

Townhomes for Tour Guests and Walk-Ups

The lodging side runs four townhomes near the Country Club, available both to tour guests and to walk-up renters. The pairing is structurally clever — guests who book a tour can book lodging through the same operator, and travelers who find the townhomes through booking platforms can pick up a tour at the same desk. Whether the tour and the lodging operate under the same legal entity or two separate filings is one of the gaps in the public record, alongside Julie’s full legal name and any business partners involved in the operation.

Coral Cliffs in the 435

For a register of locally rooted Southern Utah businesses, Coral Cliffs is a hospitality-and-tourism crossover candidate — useful as an example of how the register handles operators that span lodging and outdoor experience under one roof. Kanab’s identity as a tour-launching base camp for the Wave and the slot-canyon network is a real piece of the corridor’s economy, and the family operations that run the tours are a thin layer of small businesses worth surfacing. Coral Cliffs is one of them, and the listing’s open questions — Julie’s full name, the operating LLC, the entity structure — are the kind of detail the register can clean up through direct outreach.

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