Video: Hiking Utah’s Slot Canyons Peek-A-Boo and Spooky Gulch. May 10, 2020 May 10, 2020 by Michael Lanza. By Michael Lanza. Peek-a-boo Gulch is located in the scenic Grand Staircase National Monument near Escalante, Utah and adjacent to Spooky Gulch. It is not to be confused with Red Slot Canyon AKA Peekaboo. These two slot canyon hikes are usually hiked together as a loop that totals in about 3.5 miles. The trail is not really long but it is a fun area to explore. It is a great hike for any skill level and for. Red Canyon or as it's called by the locals: Peek-a-Boo. Southern Utah has it’s share of unique desertscapes, but the land here offers something different too - slot canyons. Abundant, yet hidden gems, that start out as small cracks in the earth that, overtime water has forced to become deep and narrow sandstone slots.

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×Peekaboo Gulch is a small drainage - for the most part just a sandy wash, it eventually enters a half mile narrows section, very twisting and convoluted though only a few meters deep. The gulch is most famous because of the last 100 meters, before the junction with Dry Fork of Coyote Gulch - here the ravine cuts deeper into the red Navajo sandstone, forming a series of interlinked potholes, extravagant swirls and fins of rock, and several arches; these different openings and the many corners and crevices account for the curious name of this canyon. One hour is enough to see all of the lower narrows.

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Topographic Map of Peekaboo Gulch

Location

The canyon is the first tributary joining Dry Fork of Coyote Gulch downstream of the usual entrance point to that canyon.

Photographs

5 views of Peekaboo Gulch.

Route Description

There is usually a pool of murky water beneath the end of Peekaboo Gulch, which may be up to 3 feet deep, with a near vertical rock wall about 10 feet high beyond. Several foot holes have been cut into this rock but these are rather worn and muddy, and climbing up can be quite difficult, especially if exploring alone. Piling stones in the pool helps to gain height and makes the ascent a little easier. Above is another watery pothole and beyond that is a succession of pools, each a few feet higher up, with more slippery rocks to scramble up and over; several points are rather tricky to negotiate. This lower section of the canyon has the sandstone arches and the best rock formations.

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