As the name implies, this is a hike with near endless views. Grand View Point is the southern-most spot on Canyonland’s high mesa, the Island in the Sky. Laid out below is a complex network of canyons carved by the converging Colorado and Green Rivers. This 2-mile round trip hike leaves from Grand View Overlook and travels down the mesa’s edge for as far as you can… Read more.

The Island in the Sky district of Canyonlands National Park is renowned for elevated views of immense canyons. One of the best east-facing vistas is White Rim Overlook, which offers sweeping 300-degree views from the mid-point a 1.8-mile round trip hike.From the picnic area a mile from the end of Grand View Road, hike east down the trail for a tenth of a mile and turn… Read more.

The 3.6-mile round trip hike to Murphy Point provides a peaceful outing with excellent views off the western end of the Island in the Sky. This is an excellent morning hike, when the sun first strikes the expansive canyons below the mesa. Alternatively, the wide western view also makes this a recommended sunset trail. There is only 150 feet of elevation to contend to,… Read more.

Aztec Butte is one of the more unique hikes in the Island in the Sky region of Canyonlands National Park. The trail crosses level grasslands and climbs a steep slope to a dome-shaped butte rising above the mesa. Alcoves along the rim of the butte house Puebloan granaries, which early inhabitants used for storage. A loop around the top of Aztec Butte visits two such… Read more.

Upheaval Dome is a unique natural anomaly on the western end of a magnificent mesa known as the Island in the Sky. There are two popular theories for what caused the bizarre formation, but neither explains how a whale of a rock ended up stretched across the mesa nearby. This long sandstone formation looks like a giant beached whale that came ashore on the Island in the… Read more.