Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument

Grand Staircase Escalante NM is a 1.9 million acre area in southern Utah. We only scratched the surface of this wild and beautiful place since we were there for only a few days before going to nearby Bryce Canyon National Park. We camped at Kodachrome Basin State Park, which is part of the Grand Staircase even though it is not included in the National Monument (since it is state land). While there we hiked some of the wilderness areas including Lower Calf Creek Falls. We also visited Paria Canyon, which is the location of an old movie set used in the Clint Eastwood movie "The Outlaw Josey Wales" and has some incredibly beautiful multicolored cliffs.