RESOURCES

All photographs by Matthew R Jordan

Abbey, Edward. Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness. Ballantine Books, NY, 1968.
-Considered the bible of red rock country. All of Abbey’s quotes on this website are from this book.

web.utk.edu/~epeters5/trails/index.html
-An excellent site for learning the concept of “minimum impact.”

www.nps.gov
-This is the website for the National Park Service.

www.utah.com
-This is the official Utah state tourism site.

www.blm.gov/nhp/
-This is the site for the Bureau of Land Management.

www.fs.fed.us/
-This is the site for the National Forest Service.

www.stateparks.utah.gov
-This is the site for the Utah State Park system.

www.navajo.org/
-This is the official government site for the Navajo Nation.

www.canyoneeringusa.com/
-An exceptional canyoneering guide for the adventurer. The section “Tom’s Utah Canyoneering Guide” outlines route descriptions, climbing technique, equipment, minimum impact practices, and ethics considerations.

www.utahcanyons.com/
-This site includes all sorts of adventures in Southern Utah- big and small.

www.utahcanyons.com/
-This is another good site which includes camping, hiking, roads, and so on.

Adkison, Ron. Hiking Grand Staircase-Escalante and the Glen Canyon Region. The Globe Pequot Press, Guilford, CT, 1998.
-This is a Falcon hiking guide, just one example of many available guides to trails and recreation in Southern Utah.

Watkins, T.H. Stone Time: Southern Utah: A Portrait and a Meditation. Clear Light Publishers, Santa Fe, NM, 1994.
-This fellow has put together an appealing book of photography of and prose about the region.