After the first of several nights at the wonderful Slot Canyons Inn outside of Escalante, we did our first hike in Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument. We rented a large 4-wheel drive vehicle so we could tackle some of the unimproved roads in the area. Today we drove to Cannonville and then past Kodachrome Basin State Park onto the unpaved Cottonwood Road. We had been concerned that the rains of the previous few days would make the road impassible, but the rangers at the visitor center assured us the road was fine, and it was. We drove down to the north end of Cottonwood Narrows and had a wonderful explore.
After a couple of tries we found our way into the narrows and walked about 3.5 miles round trip. We didn't go all the way to the southern end. The valley opened up and wasn't as interesting farther south, and we had lots more exploring we wanted to do.
There are LOTS of these neat eroded holes in the park.
We had read that the canyon was wet, but it was completely dry.
It was more open toward the southern end.
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