Slot Canyon · Utah & Arizona

Buckskin Gulch

The longest slot canyon in the Southwest

TypeSlot Canyon
StatesUtah & Arizona
Best seasonLate spring & fall (never with rain anywhere upstream)
How to visitDay-use fee + permit (overnight by lottery); Wire Pass is the easy entry

A 15-mile crack in the earth, narrow enough to touch both walls for miles and deep enough to swallow the daylight — the longest and most serious slot canyon on the continent. Beautiful, committing, and lethal in a flash flood; check the forecast hard.

The shot

The corridor narrowing to a glowing seam.

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