Horseshoe Bend Slot Canyon Tours, 821 U.S. Highway 89, Page, AZ 86040 (435) 275-4594 info@horseshoebendtours.com. Horseshoe Canyon offers excellent hiking opportunities. The Canyon is not contiguous with the rest of Canyonlands National Park. It is located between the towns of Green River and Hanksville. Most visitors access Horseshoe from the Hanksville side, from Utah Highway 24 via 30 miles of graded dirt road. The turnoff is signed. As for other State and National Parks, most can be enjoyed with minimal hiking. For Horseshoe Bend, I would advise you to look into shuttle service provided by Horseshoe Bend Slot Canyon Tours. They go to the overlook via private land holdings on the Navajo Reservation, where the walk to the overlook is only 200 yards. Hope that helps.

1. Horseshoe Slot Canyon Tours
2. Horseshoe Canyon Formation
3. Slot Canyons Near Horseshoe Bend
4. Horseshoe Bend Slot Canyon

Horseshoe Bend Slot Canyon Tour will take you to one of the lesser known, but highly sought after slot canyons in the Southwest. Located near Horseshoe Bend near Page, Arizona, the Horseshoe Bend Slot canyon is sought out by those who want to avoid the crowds of Antelope Canyon. It truly is a photographer’s dreeam!

Horseshoe Slot Canyon Tours

Your experience begins with a shaded, open-air tour vehicle taking a short 3 mile drive from Page, Arizona near Horseshoe Bend. Just after passing the parking lot for world renowned Horseshoe Bend Overlook, you will leave the highway by turning left onto a private dirt road. You will then take a thrilling off-road ride through sandy washes, rolling hills, and past the sandstone mesa’s of Navajoland to the secluded Horseshoe Bend Slot Canyon. There you will enjoy a nature hike to the entrance of the narrow and winding slot canyon.

Horseshoe Canyon Formation

Here you will have time to photograph and explore one of the longest slot canyons on the Navajo Nation. You will be guided for up to an hour through Horseshoe Bend slot canyon. This slot canyon provides a great deal of quiet compared to other Slot Canyon tours. Your group will be the ONLY visitors experiencing this canyon. This ensures the highest quality experience of all of the slot canyons on the Navajo Nation. This is a photographer’s delight.

The tour guides are knowledgeable, experienced and courteous so that you will have a safe and fun adventure.

• Duration: Approx. 2 1/2 hours
• Includes Navajo Nation Park Fee & Tax
• Difficulty: Easy to Moderate
• Bottled Water is provided

The Pictographs

The first pictographs are at the High Gallery, on the east side of the canyon, reached by a short side path that climbs a sandy slope to the base of the cliffs. The images are rather indistinct, and situated 20 feet above the ground so were presumably painted by people standing on several very narrow ledges that slant across this part of the cliffs. The second location is Horseshoe Shelter, nearly opposite on the west side; this has more simple figures but they are much crisper, and painted on a band of rock almost white in color so they stand out very well. The third group, perhaps the least impressive, is the

Slot Canyons Near Horseshoe Bend

Alcove Gallery

Horseshoe Bend Slot Canyon

found in a particularly large overhang on the west side of the canyon, 2 miles from the start. The pictographs are somewhat faded and damaged by 20th century graffiti. The final panel, and by far the grandest is the Great Gallery, at the end of the trail after 3.25 miles. This is also on the west side, in a shallower alcove, and it contains dozens of detailed, mysterious, intricate pictures in various shades of red and brown, some up to 8 feet tall and extending across the canyon walls for over 200 feet. Most are in excellent condition; just a few are incomplete owing to collapse of part of the cliff face. Many are the familiar ghostly armless effigies (anthropomorphs), often bearing intricate decoration on the upper torso, but others include animals, hunters and more abstract shapes. Petroglyphs as well as pictographs are found here. The panel is protected by a fence though most figures are 10 feet or more above ground level and so high enough to avoid casual visitor damage. The NPS state the 6.5 mile round trip to the Great Gallery takes 4 to 6 hours but it can be done in as little as 2.5 hours.