Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument spans across nearly 1.87 million acres of America's public lands in southern Utah, and is an outstanding biological resource, spanning five life-zones - from low-lying desert to coniferous forest. When visiting, you’ll be traveling the land of the Ancestral Puebloan and Fremont people, who were experts at farming this rugged land and built granaries to store what they grew. Their descendants, including people from the Hopi, Paiute, Zuni, Ute, and Navajo tribes, have strong ties to this land today, leaving behind rock art panels, occupation sites, campsites and granaries.

Stepping further back in time, fossil excavations have yielded more information about ecosystem change at the end of the dinosaur era than any other place in the world. The Monument’s size, resources, and remote character provide extraordinary opportunities for geologists, paleontologists, archeologists, historians, and biologists in scientific research, education, and exploration. This unspoiled natural area also remains a frontier with countless opportunities for quiet recreation and solitude.

Source: BLM Website (March 2023)

Establishment Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument — October 8, 2021 (expanded) Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument — December 4, 2017 (reduced) Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument — September 18, 1996

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The contents of brochures, site bulletins and trading cards (denoted with a colored caption) can be viewed by clicking on the cover. Most modern-day brochures, however, are cover only (denoted by a white caption) due to photograph copyrights. These items are historical in scope and are intended for educational purposes only; they are not meant as an aid for travel planning. The dates under each brochure do not reflect the complete range of years that a particular brochure was issued.

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Calf Creek Falls Trail Guide June 1979	Lower Calf Creek Falls Trail 2017	Calf Creek Falls Trail Date Unknown	Field Checklist of Birds Date Unknown	Trailhead Access Points from "Hole-in-the-Rock" Road Date Unknown
Visitor Guide to the Escalante Scenic Area Date Unknown

A large pterosaur limb bone from the Kaiparowits Formation (late Campanian) of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA (Andrew A. Farke, extract from PeerJ, January 20, 2021)

A Preliminary Assessment of Archaeological Resources within the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah Utah Geological Survey Circular 95 (David M. Madsen, 1997)

A Preliminary Assessment of Energy and Mineral Resources within the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Utah Geological Survey Circular 93 (M. Lee Allison, January 1997)

A Preliminary Assessment of Paleontological Resources within the Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument Utah Geological Survey Circular 96 (1997)

Annual Manager's Report—Fiscal Year 2016, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (Cindy Staszak, December 31, 2016)

Annual Manager's Report: 2021, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (Vicki Tyler, Valerie Russell, Jabe Beal, Raven Chavez, Cameron McQuivey, Alan Titus and David Hercher, 2021)

Archeology of the Dead Raven Site BLM Utah Cultural Resource Series No. 26/Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Special Publication No. 2 (Barbara A. Walling and Richard A. Thompson, 2004)

Boundary Modifications, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (2017)

Draft Resource Management Plans and Environmental Impact Statement, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and Kanab-Escalante Planning Area: Executive Summary • Vol. I • Vol. II (BLM, August 2018)

Draft Resource Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument: Vol. I • Vol. II (BLM, August 2023)

Ethnographic Assessment of Kaibab Paiute Cultural Resources in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah (Richard W. Stoffle, Alex K. Carroll, Amy Eisenberg and John Amato, October 2004)

Excavations at the Arroyo Site, 43KA3976: A Pueblo II/III Virgin Anasazi Farmstead BLM Utah Cultural Resource Series No. 27/Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Special Publication No. 3 (Douglas A. McFadden, 2012)

Formative Chronology and Site Distribution on the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument: A Research Reference BLM Utah Cultural Resource Series No. 27/Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Special Publication No. 4 (Douglas A. McFadden, 2016)

Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument: Proposed Management Plan, Final Environmental Impact Statement (July 1999)

Handout, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and Kanab-Escalante Planning Area, Utah (BLM, February 6, 2020)

Initial results of a five-year cooperative interagency paleontological survey, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah and surrounding area: The proof is in the pooling (of resources) (A.L. Titus, S.S. Sampson, J.I. Kirkland, D.D Deblieux, D.D Gillette, L.B. Albright and M.A. Getty, New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science Bulletin 34, 2006, ©New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, all rights reserved)

Kaibabitsinüngwü: An Archaeological Sample Survey of the Kaiparowits Plateau BLM Utah Cultural Resource Series No. 25/Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Special Publication No. 1 (Phil R. Geib, Jim H. Collette and Kimberly Spurr, October 2001)

Learning from the land: Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Science Symposium proceedings: November 4-5, 1997, Southern Utah University (Linda M. Hill, ed., 1998)

Managing the Monument: Cows and Conservation in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (©Raymond B. Wrabley, Jr., extract from Utah Environmental Law Review: Journal of Land, Resources & Environmental Law, Vol. 29 No. 2, 2009)

Map, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (BLM, 2015)

Map, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (BLM, c2022)

Map: Cultural and Paleontological Resources (BLM, April 4, 2018)

Maps (Boundary Modification): December 12, 2017 • 2017 (BLM)

Mineral Potential Report for the Lands now Excluded from Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Garfield and Kane Counties, Utah (Michael Vanden Berg, BLM, April 2018)

Paleontological Survey of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Garfield and Kane Counties, Utah Utah Geological Survey Special Study 99 (John R. Foster, Alan L. Titus, Gustav F. Winterfield, Martha C. Hayden and Alden H. Hamblin, 2001)

Pithouse Excavations at the Park Wash Site (42KA4280), Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Southcentral Utah HRA Papers in Archaeology No. 1 (Richard V.N. Ahlstrom, ed., June 2000)

Proclamation 6920—Establishment of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (William J. Clinton, September 18, 1996)

Proclamation 9682—Modifying the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (Donald J. Trump, December 4, 2017)

Proclamation 10286—Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (Joseph R. Biden, Jr., October 8, 2021)

Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plans for the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (BLM, February 2020)

Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan for the Kanab-Escalante Planning Area (BLM, February 2020)

Record of Decision and Resource Management Plan (February 2000)

Resource Management Plans and Final Environmental Impact Statement, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and Kanab-Escalante Planning Area: Executive Summary • Vol. I • Vol. II (BLM, August 2019)

Science Symposium Proceedings 1997 (undated)

Science Symposium Proceedings 2006 (undated)

Science Symposium Proceedings 2016 (August 2016)

Shaded Relief Map: Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, UT (USGS, 1997)

Scoping Report: Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and Kanab-Escalante Resource Area, Resource Management Plans and Environmental Impact Statement (BLM, August 2018)

Soil Survey of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Area, Parts of Kane and Garfield Counties, Utah (2007)

Travel Map (BLM, 2016)

Upper Cretaceous dinosaur tracks from the upper and capping sandstone members of the Wahweap Formation, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah, U.S.A. (Edward L. Simpson, H. Fitzgerald Malenda, Matthias Needle, Hannah L. Hilbert-Wolf, Alex Steullet, Ken Boling, Michael C. Wizevich and Sarah E. Tindall, from New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin No. 53, 2011, ©New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, all rights reserved)

Visual Resource Inventory, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (Logan Simpson for BLM, 2019)

What is the Grand Staircase? Utah Geological Survey Public Information Series 64 (1999)