4 days / 60 miles / 4 hours, 54 minutes
You can easily spend a week exploring along the Hole in the Rock Road. Get an RV, pick a camping spot near the trail and settle in for a few days of hiking, stargazing, and listening to silence.
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Day 1
9:00 am - 8.0 miles / 38 minutes - 9:38 am
A short walk up a sandy gully leads into Zebra Slot, where narrowing walls reveal striking white and orange stripes across the sandstone. About a mile farther down Harris Wash, Tunnel Slot offers another unusual formation: a 50-yard, cave-like passage through high cliffs, with a narrow opening that widens near the streambed.
2:38 pm - 3.0 miles / 14 minutes - 2:53 pm
Day 2
9:00 am - 2.3 miles / 12 minutes - 9:12 am
Explore, play, or picnic in a garden of whimsical sandstone rock formations.
9:42 am - 12.9 miles / 1 hour, 2 minutes - 10:44 am
Peek-a-Boo, Spooky, and Dry Fork Canyons
Squeeze, push, and pull your way through a series of fun and challenging slots requiring a 12-foot climb and maneuvering through 10-inch-wide gaps.
2:44 pm - 2.0 miles / 11 minutes - 2:55 pm
Day 3
9:00 am - 0.7 miles / 5 minutes - 9:05 am
The Batty Pass Caves are three hand-carved sandstone rooms excavated in the 1950s and 1960s by German-American brothers Bill and Cliff Lichtenhahn during the uranium boom. Used as both a home and workshop for crafting petrified wood and jasper, the remarkably preserved hideout still contains original artifacts, including old beds, a wood stove, a half-finished boat, and a rusted car outside the entrance.
11:35 am - 10.9 miles / 53 minutes - 12:28 pm
Imagine Mormon pioneers enjoying a rest from this unforgiving wild landscape to dance and sing in this natural amphitheater.
12:58 pm - 0.1 miles / 1 minute - 12:59 pm
Road may be impassable beyond this point without high clearance 4WD vehicle
1:04 pm - 2.8 miles / 13 minutes - 1:18 pm
The Carcass Wash Memorial commemorates a tragic 1963 truck accident that claimed the lives of 13 members of a youth river-running expedition: seven Explorer Scouts and six adult leaders. The truck lost its transmission and brakes while descending a steep slope and overturned into a remote ravine. A roadside plaque honors the victims and the survivors who walked miles through the desert to seek help.
1:23 pm - 1.7 miles / 8 minutes - 1:32 pm
Day 4