Explore Escalante
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Visitor Information
Escalante, Utah offers many services for your traveling needs. A local market is open Monday - Saturday. The car repair store is open Monday - Saturday. The restaurants are open 6 AM to 9 PM. Two are open on Sundays. There are three gas stations, 100+ rooms, Motorcycle repair shop, three art galleries and a small T-Shirt shop. The rock shop is just west of town and the Airport is east of town. Two guides offer shuttle services and one lodging facility has a courtesy car for fly-ins. Remember to gas up before 9 PM and eat before 8:30 and most businesses are closed on Sunday - except us. Gallery Escalante is open daily 10 am to 6 pm. And since we live behind the gallery you can always come knock on the door (at least until 10 pm)
Our local Chamber of Commerce has a business directory. You can download the pdf file here.
Emergency Services are available in Escalante. The medical clinic is open Monday/Wednesday/Friday and will take walk-ins. There is ambulance service and the Garfield County Search and Rescue Service has an active unit in Escalante. Many rescues on the Grand Staircase happen throughout the year. The local hospital in 75 miles in Panguitch.
Escalante, Utah
is named after Father Escalante. His Spanish Exploring Party, the first white men to enter and traverse the Great Basin, crossed the Colorado River at a point about forty miles downstream from the mouth of the Escalante River.
The settlement of Escalante began in the spring of 1875. A number of the Morman Church brethern from Panguitch desired to change their place of residence to a country where the climate was more mild, and chose "Potato Valley", Escalante's first name.
Geology
Escalante is at the heart of hundreds of miles of sandstone labyrinths with unusual rock shapes and slot canyons.
Travelers can access the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Dixie National Forest, and Glen Canyon National Recreations area from Escalante.