A short slot canyon with no official name, this joins the far west side of Lake Powell about 8 miles north of Page after crossing the Utah/Arizona border, so could reasonably be called Stateline Canyon. The drainage is generally quite shallow, with no extremes of narrowness but it does have about half a mile of pretty passages through cream colored Entrada sandstone, and plenty of swirling, eroded rock formations. After several dryfalls it opens out into a wider wash which then meets the lake as a narrow sheltered inlet, opposite Lone Rock. The canyon begins right next to US 89 so is easily reached, and is a good place for photography.
Location: The wash forming the middle fork of the canyon starts on the east side of US 89 two miles south of the Arizona/Utah state line, a short distance south of a new residential development also on the east side, and directly opposite the end of an old track that heads off to the northwest, later veering west towards Ferry Swale and other locations above the canyon of the lower Paria River. The junction makes a good parking place, and a little way along the track is a flat gravelled area suitable for camping.
Photographs: 8 views of Stateline Canyon.
Map: TopoQuest topographic map of Stateline Canyon.
Description: The shallow middle fork of the upper wash soon reaches a dryfall of about 12 feet, which can be climbed, or bypassed and the canyon entered just beyond. Below are stretches of medium depth narrows, later becoming less deep, enclosed by clean crisp whitish rocks. The floor is sandy and mostly quite level, and the passages are rather straight, interrupted by a few tight curvy bends and small steps downwards. A left fork joins from one side and a right fork soon after, then the canyon has a sheer drop of 10 meters. This may be passed on the right side, to reach more quite nice passages that eventually end with two more dryfalls below which the canyon is wider and less interesting, as it starts to cut into the underlying thin red layers of the Carmel Formation. The lake is reached after another half mile, while the cliffs above the shoreline at this point are also accessible by a dirt track starting from the residential area by US 89.
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Stateline Canyon
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Short, shallow but quite photogenic and easily explored slot canyon, reached by a short walk from US 89, and ending at Lake Powell
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Length: 2 miles, to the high water mark of Lake Powell
Difficulty: Easy. One dryfall to bypass
Management: NPS - part of Glen Canyon NRA
Rocks: Entrada sandstone
Season: All year
Trailhead: Along US 89, 1.7 miles south of the Utah stateline; 36.983882,-111.55205
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