Introduction

• Jack's Canyon is one of the most challenging adventures in the hiking world. A slot canyon so deep and narrow that a flashlight is needed. Good rock climbing skills, rope, and swimming ability are also needed. This is not the real name, but several people have asked me to disguise the name to help protect the canyon.
• Buckskin Gulch is probably the longest, deepest slot canyon in the world: 12 miles long, 800' deep, and in many places you can touch both walls.
• Black Hole of Lower White Canyon is an adult playground in rock, challenging but one of the most fun things I've ever done.
• Little Wild Horse Canyon was a fun hike my wife and I took our almost 3 year old daughter on. Some very nice twisty narrows, but not too strenuous.
• Antelope Canyon has been described as the most photogenic slot canyon in the world. The light and texture of the rocks are fabulous, and access is a 30 minute round trip from the road.
• Orderville Canyon in Zion National Park is a tributary of the Virgin River, joining it in the narrows. Spectacular canyon in the fall, but involved some chimneying and swimming in ice water.
• Bull Valley Gorge and Willis Canyons are located in Kodachrome basin SE of Bryce National Park. Good, challenging narrows.
• The Chute of Muddy Creek located in the San Rafael Swell, NW of Hanksville, UT has some excellent narrows but is well named.
• Three VERY Narrow Slots located somewhere north of Lake Powell are probably the narrowest slot canyons I have been in.
• Superstition Mountains are rugged volcanic, Sonoran desert mountains located near Phoenix, AZ. This page describes three trips there.
• Anasazi Ruins. This set of pages contain a number of spectacular petroglyphs, amazing ruins, a brief description and history of the Anasazi, and links to National Parks and Monuments containing Anasazi artifacts.
• Hall's Creek Narrows at the southern end of Capitol Reef is more of a deep V canyon than a true slot canyon. It is spectacular but a long hike.
• Sounds of Silence Nowhere can you find absolute silence like that of the desert canyons.

The Desert Pleasures Page maintained by Phil Hatch gives trail descriptions for quite a few slot canyons.

The BLM Utah page is a handy reference.

One of the best slot canyon pages I've seen is Tom's Slot Canyon Page. His page gives more access detail than mine, and is more focused on technical canyons requiring climbing skills. Especially check out the Quandry Canyon trip for near disaster and how not to do a slot canyon! Tom also is a Canyoner's web ring member.

A commercial page which looks like it might have some good info is here.

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