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ESCALANTE UTAH GUIDED TOURS

Escalante Area Adventures

We quickly noticed the connection between our guests hiring a guide and the improved quality of their outdoor experience. Below is a list of some of our favorite guide services that provide an exciting range of outdoor fun.

Hiking

Escape Goats  –  Guided Day and evening tours with or without goats. Fully catered pack tours and shuttle service. Experienced guide in the popular slot canyons such as Peekaboo and Spooky Gulch.


Excursions of Escalante – Escalante’s first professional guide service offering canyoneering, hiking, and multi-day trips into the most remote and pristine areas of the Grand Staircase Escalante Nat’l Monument, Glen Canyon, Box Death Hollow, San Rafael Swell and Dixie Nat’l Forest.

A hiker walks through a shallow, muddy river in a narrow slot canyon with towering rock walls and lush green vegetation.
A close-up view of a person riding a horse in a sunlit desert landscape, with another rider visible in the distance.

Horseback Riding

Hell’s Backbone Ranch & Trail – Located in Boulder, Utah. Specializing in day rides, pack trips and custom trips for riders of all abilities in Dixie Nat’l Forest and Grand Staircase Escalante Nat’l Monument.


Mecham Outfitters – Located near Bryce Canyon. All day or half day (morning or evening) rides. We accept: saddle clubs, family groups and corporate trips. Guiding in the Grand Staircase Escalante Nat’l Monument and Dixie national Forest.

Fly Fishing

Boulder Mountain Fly Fishing – Guided fly fishing to the lakes and streams of Southern Utah’s Boulder Mountain.


Nate’s Fly Fishing – Discover fly fishing opportunities on top of the pristine Aquarius Plateau.


Fremont River Guides – Fremont River Guides will pick you up at the Slot Canyons Inn for daily excursions to the Boulder Mountains, Fremont River, Sevier River, Mammoth Creek and other great fisheries which are less than an hour away.


Shawn Saunders – Outfitter – Shawn has been a professional guide and instructor for over 16 years in Idaho, Arizona and Utah. His love of fly-fishing and hunting adventures have taken him to international destinations such as Belize, the Bahamas, Mexico, Alaska as well as all of the western states.

A person holds a rainbow trout with a vibrant pink stripe along its side, half-submerged in a flowing river.
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ATV

Grand Staircase ATV Tours – Guided ATV tours originating near Bryce Canyon. We specialize in all day, private, and 3 day tours.