Hiking
Source-verified hiking pages from 435 Alliance.
Alpine Pond Loop
Alpine Pond Loop is the easy, family-friendly hike at Cedar Breaks — a two-mile loop that drops off the rim into a high-elevation meadow, circles a snowmelt...
Anasazi Valley / Tempi'po'op Trail
Anasazi Valley Trail starts at a gravel lot off Old Highway 91, west of downtown Santa Clara, and climbs onto a sandstone bench that holds one of the...
Angels Landing
Angels Landing isn’t the longest hike in Zion or the highest. It’s the one that put a chain in the rock and made you decide.
Babylon Arch Trail
Babylon Arch Trail starts at a small BLM lot off the old US-91 alignment north of Hurricane, drops down a sandstone slope, and ends at a free-standing arch...
Bear Claw Poppy Trail
Bear Claw Poppy Trail starts at a gravel pullout off Navajo Drive in Bloomington, on the south side of St. George, where the city’s residential streets...
Belly of the Dragon
Belly of the Dragon is the short, easy, slightly-spooky walk under US-89 in the Mt. Carmel area, where what was originally a 1960s drainage culvert under...
Bristlecone Pine Trail
The Bristlecone Pine Trail is a short USFS-maintained interpretive loop on the Markagunt Plateau, off UT-14 between Cedar Canyon and Cedar Breaks.
Buckskin Gulch
Buckskin Gulch is the slot canyon that runs from the Utah-Arizona border south through the Vermilion Cliffs, joining Paria Canyon and continuing to the...
Butterfly Trail
The Butterfly Trail runs north-south along the western side of Snow Canyon between the Lava Flow Trailhead and the West Canyon Road, and it functions less...
Cable Mountain
Cable Mountain is the East Rim summit destination that most Zion repeat visitors do once and remember. From the East Entrance Trailhead, you climb onto the...
Canyon Overlook Trail
Canyon Overlook is the Zion trail you do on the east side of the Mt. Carmel Tunnel, a one-mile round trip that climbs onto a sandstone shelf and ends at a...
Cedar Breaks Rim Trail
The Cedar Breaks Rim Trail follows the edge of a 2,000-foot pink-limestone amphitheater on the Markagunt Plateau, at over 10,000 feet of elevation.
Chuckwalla Trail
Chuckwalla Trail is the network of interconnected dirt and slickrock loops that fan out from a small BLM trailhead off Bluff Street, west of downtown St.
Church Rocks
Church Rocks is the cluster of sandstone outcrops at the I-15 corridor near Washington City — a quick drop-off-the-freeway recreation area with a 3-mile...
Coral Pink Sand Dunes
Coral Pink Sand Dunes are the orange-pink active sand dunes northwest of Kanab, occupying a basin where wind has piled the eroded debris of the surrounding...
Cottonwood Forks Trail
Cottonwood Forks is the longer, less-crowded option at Red Cliffs Recreation Area — the trail you take when Red Reef feels too short and you want the same...
Court of the Patriarchs
The Court of the Patriarchs is a short paved viewpoint trail off the Zion Canyon Scenic Drive that gets you the headline view of three of the canyon’s named...
Deertrap Mountain
Deertrap Mountain is the second of two summit destinations off the East Rim Trail in Zion’s east-side high country. Where Cable Mountain delivers the...
Diana's Throne
Diana’s Throne is the easy slickrock summit hike near Mt. Carmel that delivers a panoramic view of the Zion-to-Bryce corridor without committing to a long day.
Dinosaur Discovery Trail (Johnson Farm)
The St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm is the museum at 2180 E Riverside Drive that preserves and interprets the Early Jurassic dinosaur...
East Rim Trail
The East Rim Trail historically traversed the high country between Zion’s east entrance on UT-9 and the canyon floor at Weeping Rock — over ten miles of...
Elephant Arch
Elephant Arch is a Navajo sandstone arch in the Warner Valley reach east of Washington City — a free-standing span that, viewed from the trail’s approach,...
Emerald Pools
Emerald Pools is the Zion family hike — three tiers of waterfall pools cut into the sandstone above Zion Lodge, connected by a network of trails that lets...
Grafton Cemetery Trail
The Grafton Cemetery is across the Virgin River from the Grafton ghost town, accessed by a short walk from the ghost town parking area.
Grafton Mesa
Grafton Mesa is the bench above the Virgin River at Rockville, with a network of dirt and slickrock trails that climb onto the mesa, traverse its top, and...
Guacamole Mesa
Guacamole Mesa is the slickrock-heavy mountain bike loop south of Virgin, named for the unusual green-tinted Navajo sandstone outcrops that dot the mesa top...
Hidden Canyon
Hidden Canyon was one of Zion’s harder day hikes — a chains-and-exposure route up the east canyon wall to a hanging slot canyon high above the Virgin River.
Hidden Haven
Hidden Haven is the Cedar Canyon walk-up most Cedar City locals do as their default summer-evening hike — a short, easy trail off UT-14 that ends at a slot...
Hidden Pinyon Trail
Hidden Pinyon is the trail Snow Canyon points at when someone walks into the visitor center and asks “what should I do for an hour?
Hop Valley Trail
Hop Valley Trail is the 13. 5-mile round-trip backcountry hike from the Kolob Terrace area down through the Hop Valley to its connection with the La Verkin...
Jacob Hamblin Park Trails
Jacob Hamblin Park is Kanab’s in-town outdoor space — a city park with associated walking and mountain bike trails on the bench above town.
JEM Trail
The JEM Trail is the classic Hurricane Cliffs mountain bike route — a 6. 8-mile one-way singletrack along the rim and through the bench country south of...
Joshua Tree Road / Beaver Dam Wash
Joshua Tree Road runs through the Beaver Dam Wash National Conservation Area in far western Washington County, where the Mojave Desert lifts its eastern...
Kanab Sand Caves
The Kanab Sand Caves are a series of man-made sandstone chambers cut into a Navajo sandstone cliff just north of Kanab on US-89, originally excavated as a...
Kayenta Trail
Kayenta Trail is the connector that runs from The Grotto shuttle stop down into the Emerald Pools network, and since the 2019 rockfall that closed the...
Kolob Arch
Kolob Arch is the destination at the back end of Zion’s Kolob Canyons unit — a 287-foot natural sandstone span set high on a cliff in the La Verkin Creek...
Kolob Canyons
Kolob Canyons is the Zion entrance most locals don’t know exists. Take I-15 exit 40 near New Harmony, drive a quarter mile east, and you’re at a separate...
Lava Flow Trail (Snow Canyon)
The Lava Flow Trail starts at a paved pullout off Snow Canyon Drive near the north end of Snow Canyon State Park and crosses a black basalt apron that...
Lava Point Overlook
Lava Point Overlook is the highest accessible viewpoint in Zion National Park — a 7,890-foot perch on the Kolob Terrace, reached by a long winding drive on...
Maynard Dixon Living History Site
The Maynard Dixon Living History Site in Mt. Carmel is the preserved home and studio of the early-20th-century western painter Maynard Dixon, who lived in...
Observation Point (East Mesa Route)
Observation Point is the highest reasonable viewpoint in Zion Canyon — a sandstone bench at the rim looking down over Angels Landing from above, with the...
Observation Point (Original Trail)
The original Observation Point trail was Zion’s classic rim-from-the-canyon-floor climb — eight miles round trip from the Weeping Rock shuttle stop, 2,148...
Owens Loop / Owens Trail
Owens Loop is the family-friendly trail at Red Cliffs Recreation Area, the BLM unit that sits at I-15 exit 22 between St.
Pa'rus Trail
The Pa’rus Trail is the paved walking-and-biking path that runs along the Virgin River from Zion’s South Campground area up to the canyon junction where the...
Paradise Rim
Paradise Rim runs along the lip of the Santa Clara River canyon — a deep cut through the desert west of town that the Santa Clara Reserve trails climb onto,...
Parowan Gap
Parowan Gap is the natural gap in the Red Hills northwest of Parowan, where erosion cut a notch through the ridge that exposed sandstone walls — and where...
Peek-A-Boo Slot Canyon (Kanab)
Peek-A-Boo Slot Canyon outside Kanab is a short, photogenic slot canyon in the Navajo sandstone country east of town, accessed via a sandy 4WD road that...
Petrified Dunes
Petrified Dunes is the part of Snow Canyon where the trail more or less stops being a trail. You park at the signed pullout off Snow Canyon Drive, walk a...
Pioneer Park (Dixie Rock)
Pioneer Park sits on a sandstone shelf at the edge of downtown St. George, where the city’s grid runs out and the volcanic basalt of the Black Hill begins.
Quail Creek Trail
Quail Creek State Park is the turquoise reservoir between St. George and Hurricane that’s primarily a fishing and boating destination — and the small trail...
Red Hills Desert Garden
Red Hills Desert Garden is the half-mile paved interpretive walk on the bench above downtown St. George, where the Washington County Water Conservancy...
Red Reef Trail
Red Reef Trail follows Quail Creek up a narrowing slickrock corridor at Red Cliffs Recreation Area, with the trail dipping in and out of the creek itself...
Right Fork of North Creek
The Right Fork of North Creek is one of the backcountry trails on the south side of Pine Valley Mountain, in the Pine Valley Mountain Wilderness designated...
Riverside Walk
The Riverside Walk is the paved trail at the head of Zion Canyon, running from the Temple of Sinawava shuttle stop along the Virgin River to the entrance of...
Sand Bench Trail
Sand Bench Trail is the loop that climbs onto the bench beneath the Three Patriarchs in Zion Canyon — the elevated terrace above the canyon floor that the...
Sand Hollow Loop Trails
Sand Hollow is the reservoir state park southeast of Hurricane that’s known for its OHV recreation on Sand Mountain, its boating and fishing on the...
Scout Cave
Scout Cave is the Navajo sandstone alcove in the Johnson Canyon area on the BLM land just east of Snow Canyon State Park, accessed by a 4.
Signal Peak
Signal Peak is the high point of Pine Valley Mountain — at 10,365 feet, the highest summit anywhere in Washington County, and the snow-capped crown that...
Spectra Point / Ramparts Trail
Spectra Point and the Ramparts overlook are the two named viewpoints on a single trail that descends from the Cedar Breaks Visitor Center along the rim’s...
Stucki Springs
Stucki Springs is the trail network west of Bear Claw Poppy on the Bloomington bench, named for a real spring that drains a small year-round seep into a...
Taylor Creek Trail
Taylor Creek is the signature Kolob Canyons hike — five miles round trip up a quiet creek bottom, past two preserved 1930s homestead cabins, ending at a...
The Black Hill Summit Trail
The Black Hill is the volcanic cone that sits on the western horizon of downtown St. George — the dark, flat-topped mass you see when you look west from...
The Narrows (Bottom-Up)
The Narrows in Zion isn’t a trail. It’s a slot canyon you have to walk up the river to enter.
The Wave (Coyote Buttes North)
The Wave is the curving sandstone formation in Coyote Buttes North that has become one of the most photographed landscapes in the western U.
Three Peaks Loop
Three Peaks is the BLM recreation area west of Cedar City off UT-56 — a desert plain with three rounded volcanic peaks rising from it, an interconnected...
Three Ponds Trail
Three Ponds is the Snow Canyon walk that delivers something the other short trails don’t: water, occasionally. The “ponds” are seasonal slickrock potholes —...
Three Sisters
Three Sisters is the cluster of three rounded Navajo sandstone formations in Snow Canyon — three “sisters” of similar shape and size, weathered from the...
Timber Creek Overlook
Timber Creek Overlook is the short walk at the end of the Kolob Canyons Scenic Drive — the road’s last stop, with a half-mile trail that climbs to a...
Toadstool Hoodoos
The Toadstool Hoodoos are a cluster of cap-rock erosional formations along US-89 between Kanab and Page, set in a small basin off a flat sandy approach trail.
Toquerville Falls
Toquerville Falls isn’t really a hike. It’s a high-clearance drive on a rough BLM road that ends at a perennial waterfall on La Verkin Creek, with a short...
Turtle Wall Trail
Turtle Wall Trail is the second hiking line out of the same trailhead as Chuckwalla, off Bluff Street on the west edge of St.
Watchman Trail
The Watchman Trail starts behind Zion’s main visitor center, climbs the eastern canyon wall to a low overlook bench, and gets you the best sunset view in...
Weeping Rock
Weeping Rock is the short paved trail to a sandstone alcove with cliff seeps that “weep” water from above — once one of the most popular family hikes in...
West Black Ridge Trail
West Black Ridge Trail runs along the basalt-capped ridge south of St. George, between the Bloomington bench and the Virgin River corridor.
West Rim Trail
The West Rim Trail is the long, mostly-downhill traverse from Zion’s high country at Lava Point down to the canyon floor at The Grotto, passing along the...
Whipple Trail
The Whipple Trail is the main USFS trail that climbs from the Pine Valley Recreation Area into the high country of Pine Valley Mountain Wilderness,...
White Pocket
White Pocket is the answer to “what do you do in the Vermilion Cliffs if you don’t win the Wave lottery? “ It’s a striking sandstone formation 30 minutes by...
Whiterocks Amphitheater
Whiterocks is the trail you take when you want to see Snow Canyon’s Navajo sandstone in its lighter color. The dominant sandstone in the rest of the park...
Wire Mesa
Wire Mesa is the loop ride and walk on the bench above Virgin, off Kolob Terrace Road. It sits in the mid-elevation country between the desert floor and...
Wire Pass
Wire Pass is the front door to Buckskin Gulch, the slot canyon that runs through the Vermilion Cliffs at the Utah-Arizona border.
Yant Flat (Candy Cliffs)
Yant Flat — the Candy Cliffs locally — is the section of striped, banded Navajo sandstone in the upper Leeds backcountry that has become one of the...