Compare maps of the 2026 cuts to Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments. Download your pdfs of the maps.

President Trump attempts to unlawfully shrink two Utah national monuments and reduce the role of tribes in managing their ancestral lands.

Lyle Balenquah, a Hopi archaeologist, describes ancestral sites along the Little Colorado River. For generations, Lyle Balenquah’s family has ranched in the north Oraibi Valley Wash between third and ...

Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni Grand Canyon National Monument is one year old. Learn about the cultural resources, waters, and plants and animals it protects. On August 8, 2023, decades of advocacy led by ...

Planning a trip to Bears Ears? Start here. Bears Ears National Monument in southern Utah spans canyons and mesas that have sustained Native peoples for millennia. Across these lands, you’ll see ...

The Island Trail is full of cultural history. Pass 25 archaeological sites on this one-mile loop in Walnut Canyon. The Island Trail drops down 240 concrete steps into the depths of Walnut Canyon, ...

This route strings together all the hiking trails at Dead Horse Point State Park, looping around the peninsula in a counterclockwise direction At Dead Horse Point State Park, tributaries of the ...

Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument bursts into bloom each spring. See some of our favorite desert wildflowers. Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah protects an ...

Grand Canyon wildfires burned across more than 200,000 acres in 2025. Now local communities are looking ahead at recovery and rebuilding on the North Rim. Fires are common across Arizona, but the ...

Join us July 15-18, 2026 in southern Utah to build fences around springs and wetlands. Healthy lands depend on healthy springs. Despite the small area they cover, springs have an outsized, positive ...

Six Native American tribes with cultural connections to Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument come together to advocate for their ancestral lands. Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument ...

Native experts weigh in on the history of tribal lands, sovereignty, and what it means to own land. This blog is distilled from the Native Perspectives virtual series held in partnership with Grand ...