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Box Canyon: Easy Central Utah Hike

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                                                             The mouth of Maple Canyon. SANPETE COUNTY  boasts a magnificent slot canyon that is still relatively unknown. Box Canyon, an offshoot of Maple Canyon, southwest of Fountain Green and northwest of Manti, is a geographical delight and has been since it was first characterized as such in the 1930s.                                               The entrance to Box Canyon is almost hidden. Where Roger Arave is pointing is where Box Canyon branches off northward from Maple Canyon. Indeed, an October 2, 1936 report in the Ephraim Enterprise newspaper stated that Snow College students  annually visited Maple Canyon and especially studied Box Canyon. Snow College Professor H.R. Christensen gave students a geology lecture in Box Canyon, since its narrow width and 200-foot high canyon walls was an oddity for the area.                                One of the many side scrambles awaiting hikers in Box Canyon. The students also explored
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Kanarraville Fall: Local Secret No More...

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                                                 The sign at the edge of the parking lot.                              The station where hikers are checked in and permits are taken. THE  Kanarraville Falls, a 5-mile roundtrip hike, is the hottest scenic rage in southwest Utah these days. Indeed, in 2021, the hike sold-out for most of the summer in early May ... Fueled by Kanarra Creek, this small slot canyon named Kanarraville Canyon, was a secret known to only locals for many decades. (Kanarraville is a small town about 13 miles southwest of Cedar City, along I-15.)                         The first section of the trail is a brisk uphill on an old road., An exhaustive old newspaper search on the waterfalls reveals nothing until the 21st Century.      Looking down on the trailhead parking lot, with 2 sections and the restroom in between. Indeed, "Best-kept secret becomes nightmare," was a June 25, 2017 Associated Press story in the Daily Sentinel newspaper of Grand Junction,
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