Utah Slickrock Guides

We guide hikers in Grand Staircase—Escalante National Monument, near Boulder & Escalante, Utah: www.UtahSlickrockGuides.com Our unpublicized, cross-country dayhikes will rank among the prized few that inspire you forever. Hiking with us, you'll witness the marvels of Utah canyon-country: from sublime to bizarre, from intimate to immense. And you'll enjoy it in profound solitude—no longer possible in Utah's over-crowded national parks.

• Base yourself in Boulder or Escalante, Utah: The Slickrock Hiking Capital of Planet Earth. We live here because we love it here. Let us show you why.

• Hike with Skye & Craig—owners of Utah Slickrock Guides. Hire us, and no one but us will guide you.

• Each day you’re with us is planned entirely, exclusively for you. We never corral guests who don’t know one another into a group.

• Tell us your hiking experience, ability, preferences, limitations, goals. We'll help you decide which of our 26 unique routes is ideal for you, so you'll be exhilarated but never under- or over-challenged.

• We lead dayhikes only, not overnight backpack trips. So even if you hike with us for several days, you'll sleep in comfort and privacy at the accommodation of your choice, and you'll dine in local restaurants. Talk with us before booking your trip. We'll help you find the ideal place to stay.

• Read guests’ comments about hiking with Skye & Craig. You’ll find more than 100 reviews of us and our guiding service on Trip Advisor. Click on the Trip Advisor link at the bottom of our homepage: www.UtahSlickrockGuides.com

Guides Who Are Committed Professionals

Choose Utah Slickrock Guides because of our unique depth of experience. We—Skye & Craig—have been refining our hiking and guiding skills for decades. Hiking isn't just our job. It's our life-long passion. Our total hiking distance exceeds three times the circumference of the Earth. We're the authors of more than a dozen hiking guidebooks, including Hiking from Here to Wow: Utah Canyon Country. We're the creators of www.HikingIsAlchemy.com

Hiking Routes Known Only To Us

Grand Staircase—Escalante National Monument is huge and wild. Roads? Few. Signed trails? Very few. That's why you need us to help you appreciate this wondrous realm. We don't guide the trails covered in guidebooks—ours or others. Nor do we guide the handful of trails popular with visitors and frequented by other guiding companies. We live here. We explore our high-desert kingdom almost daily. The slickrock-and-canyon routes we’ve decrypted would be sensational if publicized. Yet their tranquility would be shattered. So we'll never tell. But we will show, because the joy and wonder we’ve experienced here deserves to be shared. Let us share it with you.

Solitude You Won't Find in Utah's National Parks

The "Mighty Five" are undeniably magnificent. But today—thanks to social media and Covid—Utah's national parks are thronged, mobbed, teeming, overflowing. Sure, the scenery is still visible. But the experience is disappointing. Because you can't fully appreciate nature while surrounded by a noisy, agitated, pushing, shoving, honking crowd. Grand Staircase—Escalante National Monument is what Utah's national parks used to be, long ago: all the beauty and wonder, without the crowds. Hiking with Utah Slickrock Guides, you'll be on a lonely, cross-country route where the silence is as awesome as the scenery.

Canyon Country is More than its Geology & History

When you hike with Utah Slickrock Guides, Skye & Craig won't treat you like students in a classroom. We won't try to impress you by overwhelming you with scientific facts you have no use for thus won't remember. Instead, we'll give you the opportunity to be dazzled in silence; to relax into the stillness missing from modern life; to refresh your sense of awareness. Because we know you're not here to stuff your brain. You're here to feel your heart swell.