Sep 28, 2015 Located at the very end of West Canyon at Lake Powell on the Utah/Arizona border. This is by far one of the best hikes on the entire lake. It can be challenging to get to as the access point to it. Lake Powell video The completion of the Glen Canyon Dam in 1963 created Lake Powell. It took another 14 years to fill the lake. With almost 2,000 miles of shoreline, and five marinas. Glen Canyon Dam - Lake Powell Held behind the Bureau of Reclamation's Glen Canyon Dam, waters of the Colorado River and tributaries are backed up almost 186 miles, forming Lake Powell. You don't have to stay on the water to have fun in the Lake Powell area. There is some mighty good hiking to be found here. Below we list some of the more popular trails. Rainbow Bridge. Antelope Canyon Cha Canyon from Lake Powell. Near Lake Powell, but still in the wash, you will see a second natural bridge. The USGS 7.5 minute Lone Rock Quadrangle may be helpful. It may be purchased at the Carl Hayden Visitor Center. Wiregrass Canyon provides little shade, and the rocks reflect the sun's heat. Fall, winter, and spring are the best times for this hike. Explore the most popular Walking trails near Lake Powell with hand-curated trail maps and driving directions as well as detailed reviews and photos from hikers, campers and nature lovers like you. Most of the hike is in a sheer slot canyon with absolutely no potential to bail out if a flash flood occurs so check the weather before you go!

Hiking Tips

Text and Photos by Tom Klein

The troubles with hiking in the deserts of the Southwest are numerous. There is the heat, of course, the lack of water, the poisonous animals, the thorny plants, the treacherous terrain. Other than that, it isn’t bad.

On the plus side, there is stunning scenery. For me, it is the grand panorama of open country or a close look at a cloistered columbine flower in the arid canyonlands of southern Utah that keep taking my breath away. I have been coming back here to hike the canyons for years.

If you hike up a canyon, there are two drawbacks you usually have to face: the burden of a heavy backpack for extended trips and the redundancy of the return trip down the canyon. During my last trip here, I decided that I would not only enjoy the scenery and adventure, I would do something about weight and repetitiveness.

Back in 1996, I met two fellows on California’s spectacular John Muir Trail who had started out with loads of as much as 120 pounds each. To this day, I have no idea how they managed to hike with such a load. Two years ago, I encountered the opposite extreme on the rugged Colorado Trail. Two young lads ambled casually along the 480-mile trail in sneakers and little more than day packs on their backs. They were hauling no more 30 pounds on their way from Denver to Durango. I immediately decided that I wanted to give this mode of travel a try. I never even considered the 120-pound gorilla option.

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I began by leaving progressively more items out of my pack over the course of several trips. I finally whittled my gear to bare essentials for a trip of several days, reducing the weight of my basic pack from 50 or 60 pounds down to 30 pounds. Depending on the demands of a particular hike, water can add as much as 20 pounds even to the reduced load. I felt comfortable that I had solved the problem of weight.

The perfect remedy to the second problem – redundant return trips – emerged when I came across Steve Allen’s canyon hiking, or 'canyoneering,' guide books. In the vast majority of desert country hiking books, a recommended hike takes you up a canyon to seek out marvels and choice spots, and it brings you right back down again, the same way you had come.

In years of exploration throughout southern Utah, Steve Allen developed 'loop' hikes that take you up one canyon and down another, connecting them via a cattle trail, slickrock buttress, rocky chute, an old mining track or some other pathway. On Allen’s journeys, a hiker gets intimately familiar with the canyon floor and with the canyon rims, or benches. This makes for a wonderful juxtaposition of narrow canyons and open sky. Allen’s hikes can be very challenging, so it is imperative to pay close attention to every detail in his trip descriptions. For backpackers experienced with reading maps and negotiating difficult terrain, these loops are a wonderful and safe alternative to traditional canyon hiking.

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White Canyon

White Canyon runs through Utah’s Natural Bridges National Monument, draining a vast area southwest of the Bears Ears in a generally westerly direction. It empties into Lake Powell near Hite Marina. The White Canyon loop hike connects two major side canyons, Long and Gravel, which are separated by the prominent landmark known as Jacob’s Chair. The trail ranges from 3800 feet to 7500 feet in elevation, exiting via Gravel Canyon. It leads the hiker through a vast diversity in the geology and climate zones which contribute so much to southern Utah’s uniqueness.

I parked my car at the White Canyon trail head one sunny morning and took off. The first couple of miles are the only part of the loop which lies within White Canyon proper. The walking is as scenic as it is easy. Impressive stream bed 'meanders' guide the way as the highway noise drones above on Utah 95, the Bicentennial Highway, which parallels White Canyon along its length. A brief digression up Short Canyon takes you to Indian rock art. The canyon ends at a waterfall. Digression is one of Steve Allen’s trademarks. He invites a canyoneer up many a side canyon to visit spots of special beauty, archaeological or geological significance, or rock climbing challenge, and he often covers historical tidbits, enriching the experience. After backtracking to the confluence of White and Long Canyons, I began my real hike, leaving White Canyon behind and heading north, up Long Canyon.

Long Canyon

Very quickly, Long Canyon leads to a waterfall (a misnomer since no water is actually flowing). You circumvent the fall by an old cattle trail, a testament to the time when cattle ranching was the big – in fact, the only – business in the region. Further up, the hiking becomes quite varied, even tricky at times. Fortunately, much of the customary stream bed mud had dried up, giving me good traction. Still, major water holes were full, more than waist deep. They couldn't simply be waded without soaking my backpack.

Surprisingly, keeping gear dry in the desert can sometimes be a challenge, and people have developed several different solutions to the problem. I used a rafting-type dry sack big enough to hold my entire pack. When closed, it floated and it kept my stuff dry as a bone. If needed, I could put the contraption on my back since it had regular shoulder straps like any other rucksack. Within ten minutes, I had put the water holes behind me, stowed the dry sack, and I was on my way again.

Venturing up a side canyon, I scared up an owl, or more precisely, the owl scared me up as

Slot Canyon Hikes Near Lake Powell