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The distance from your car to those towers is about 3.3 miles beeline. Those landmarks will function as a beacon for your first leg. The Straight Cliffs are pointing South and at the end of that line you will see some big sandstone towers and boulders (N37 12.626 W110 57.130) as well as the partially exposed Navajo Mountain in the background. Before you start hiking have a look into the landscape and absorb the topography as this will be your guide.

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Additionally I recommend you clicking on the topographic map above to download a high resolution pdf file (55 MB) of my hiking route to take it with you in your backpack plus a compass! Have your GPS marked with the exact positioning of your car as well as the end point of your hiking (Reflection Canyon N37 11.242 W110 55.139). Check all your items to make sure that you have everything in your backpack. There are none of these facilitators, you are now on your own … and this is just the beginning! Do not expect any signs, parking lot, cairns, path or alike. At N37 15.125 W110 58.400 is the ‘trailhead’ to Reflection Canyon.

About 50 miles after entering into Hole-in-the-Rock Road the Straight Cliffs will make a bend to the South and that is where you will search for a spot to leave your car. At first they will be quite distant to your west and slowly but surely the road will get closer and closer to the cliffs. The ideal is to engage this road with a 4×4 high-clearance vehicle.ĭuring your entire trip down the Hole-in-the-Rock Road you will see to your right the aptly named Straight Cliffs. Past that point, the road becomes progressively narrower and more tortuous. Except during or immediately after a storm, the mostly gravel-covered Hole-in-the-Rock road should not present any difficulties about 16 miles from the start. You will drive the road almost to its entire extent. The Hole-in-the-Rock Road heads southwest for about 55 miles until it dead ends at Lake Powell. Enter onto Hole-in-the-Rock Road to your right. Your local trip starts at the town of Escalante.

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Apple introduced June 2012 Mac Book Pro with a high resolution retina display using an image of the Reflection Canyon as its screensaver! Getting to Reflection Canyon overland: This certainly shook up several people, but the next one big event was probably the one that had an even bigger effect. The first one was an article published at National Geographic under the title “Glen Canyon Revealed” April 2006. Reflection Canyon got really famous by two different events. If you do this as a single day project you will miss the best light at scene. You need to have good experience in hiking off trail and preferentially backpacking as the best moment for taking photographs there is either early morning or late afternoon. To take images of it you will need to do it the old fashioned way – hiking! Be prepared, this is nothing for the faint hearted.

The same principle applies to the Reflection Canyon. Now you can get there from Page (AZ) and back comfortably in a boat, all in one day. Visiting places such as the Rainbow Bridge required once multiple days trekking. On the other hand one of the numerous downsides of damming this canyon is the unrecoverable loss of its uniqueness. Although, since the creation of the dam at Page, AZ the entire area experienced a real boost in visitors thanks to the easiness of boats to reach even the most remote parts of this wonderful canyon. Exploring the Glen Canyon has always been a real challenge.

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