Paria Rimrocks Toadstool Hoodoos: BLM - Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Kanab, UT ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

4/22/2013 & 10/14/2018: The Toadstools, in Southern Utah near the Paria Ranger station, is a short and relatively easy desert hike but with some great scenic rewards. You can also make it a very long hike (as we did) and explore. There are the Red Toadstools and the White Toadstools. We went to the Red Toadstools, which was an easier hike (assuming you just do the Toadstools and back).

You can read a full account of our October 2018 trip in Joshua Tree, Escalante National Monument & Whitehouse Campground and the backpack trip Gary and I trip down Paria Canyon, which included a longer hike of the Toadstools in Buckskin Gulch & Paria River Canyon With Zion’s Angels Landing & Vermillion Cliffs Toadstools.

• 2.0 roundtrip – Family Friendly - you can make it much longer if you want, but the trails peter out and you will want GPS if you leave the main trails. 5-year old grandson? Definitely.
• Difficulty: Easy (Moderate if you go further, depending on how far you go)
• Elevation range: 4455' to 4565' gross: +142'
• Traffic: Heavy
• Getting There: No issues
• Trail Obstacles: None
• Fees: None
• Trailhead Coordinates: 37.10131, -111.87342
• Driving Directions
• Trail Map – Blue is official route. Red is perhaps the route Gary and I took in 2013. We didn’t have GPS then, so the red route is merely a suggestion, not definite. Come back the same route. Use GPS on the red route.
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• Management: BLM - Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
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Marg’s Notes: She hadn’t started with her notes yet 😔.