Wild Horse Canyon, Trail Description

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0><script type="text/javascript" src="http://hb.lycos.com/hb.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ratings.lycos.com/ratings/lycosRating.js.php"></script> <script type="text/javascript"><![CDATA[//><!]]></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://scripts.lycos.com/catman/init.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/ad/code-start.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/ad/code-middle.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/ad/code-end.js"></script> <noscript> <img src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/img/common/ot_noscript.gif?rand=207315" alt="" width="1" height="1" />  <iframe frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" width="728" height="90" src="http://ad.yieldmanager.com/st?ad_type=iframe&ad_size=728x90&section=209094"></iframe>  </noscript> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#660033" TEXT="#F7F7FF" bgproperties="fixed" background="048005a0ddthek.gif"> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hike Utah"><U><B>home</b></U></A><B>     | </b><B> </b><B> </b><B>  </b><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><B>Hike Utah</b></FONT></div> <bR> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> Wild Horse Canyon, Trail Description</div> <div> click on a thumbnail to see full size</div> <div> <A HREF="narrows.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Narrows of Little Wild Horse"><U><B><IMG SRC="1aaaefe0.jpg" border=0 width="174" height="254" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></b></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="more_narrows.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Narrows"><U><B><IMG SRC="1a9adfe0.jpg" border=0 width="173" height="254" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></b></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="wading.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Wading"><U><B><IMG SRC="1aca8fe0.jpg" border=0 width="168" height="254" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></b></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id95.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Little wild horse"><U><B><IMG SRC="1adb0130.jpg" border=0 width="176" height="275" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></b></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id96.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sunrise at Goblin Valley"><U><B><IMG SRC="197b5740.jpg" border=0 width="181" height="116" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></b></U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> From the parking area, follow the wash of Little Wild Horse Wash northward. After about half a mile the flat stream bed is interrupted by a small dry waterfall. The easiest way around this obstacle is to climb slightly up the left side of the canyon and drop back to the bottom a short distance later at the joining of Bells and Little Wild Horse Canyons. When reaching this point I would suggest bearing to the left into Bells Canyon.  Bells canyon is less spectacular than Wild Horse. This way you can save the best for last.</div> <div> The next section of the hike is an easy walk up the flat, sandy bottom of Bell Canyon. The canyon is quite narrow at first, but it steadily widens, finally breaking out of the San Rafael Reef and onto the San Rafael Swell some two miles later.</div> <div> As you leave the canyon watch carefully for a jeep road coming into the stream bed from the right. If you walk more than 0.1 or 0.2 mile from the mouth of the Canyon you have missed the road. You will have to turn right onto this jeep road to reach Little Wild Horse Canyon. After one and a half miles it crosses a smaller wash which is a tributary of Little Wild Horse. Turn off the road at this point, and follow the smaller wash for about half a mile until it joins Little Wild Horse Canyon.</div> <div> Little Wild Horse looks a lot like the end of Bell Canyon for the first half mile, but not to worry the canyon suddenly drops down under a boulder and into its first section of narrows. This is the start to the long stretch of extremely tight narrows that begins about half way down Little Wild Horse.  Distances between the canyon walls rarely reaches larger than 6 ft. wide.  You may have to wade through some pools if it has rained recently but there is no permanent water in either of the canyons. Do not enter the canyon if a thunder storm is threatening. The water can come up to the danger level quickly, and once inside the narrows there is no place to hide from a flash flood.</div> <div> After three miles Little Wild Horse Canyon emerges again with Bell Canyon, and from there it is an easy matter to retrace your steps the half mile back to the road.</div> <div> There are a few offshoot canyons and plenty of places to explore.  Plan on spending a whole day in the canyon.  If you have extra time it is worth the entrance fee to check out Goblin Valley.</div> </td> </tr></table></body>