Escalante Interagency Visitor Center

H J Melnick

2023-06

Highly educational kid friendly. ADA compliant. Picnic tables. Very helpful staff. Clean bathrooms. Spectacular views. Too maps for sale. Small gift shop.Price for entry: $0.00

Laura Langdon

2020-05

The facility has info specific to the amount of time you have or your travel style. You can ask the front desk for print outs of certain things like slot canyon hikes. They have tons of books and maps that you can take photos of or purchase. There's an exhibit of insects, rocks, and other interesting things you can find in the area. The parking lot also has a water fill up for RVs. WiFi was fast too.

Joe Sage

2024-04

Fun visitor center with neat displays. Stop by on your way through.

Christophe

2024-04

Drove an hour to be here just to find it closed due to staffing. A visitor centre of this size without staff is just bad management

carmen cooke (healthyweightin90days)

2023-05

Are plan for next year you need no less the 5 to 7 days here if you explore or hike slots

Daisuke

2024-03

Sean and the rangers were so knowledgeable and kind to show me around. Lots of interesting geological and biological presentations.

Walter Rothe

2024-01

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Joseph Dutko

2018-05

Interesting stop while traveling the Highway 12 Scenic Byway on our Grand Circle tour of National and State Parks. We had some really beautiful views as we traversed our way across Utah's magnificent parks. The staff in this Visitor Center were really nice and helpful and made our trip more enjoyable. Take the time to stop, talk and learn it is interesting.

Jason Hunsaker

2022-05

Tons of info and the rangers are always friendly. Pick up some wag bags if you’re going canyon camping.

Bon Manhkong

2018-05

I saw my Ranger who gave me a cave tour from a couple of years ago at Great Basin National Park. Familiar and friendly face!

Todd Mowen

2021-05

Closed because of Covid 19. They still have a lot of information in their Courtyard with flyers and maps. No one to talk to about great place to still stop for information.

J. G.

2023-08

I've been to this visitor center numerous times...I'm impressed by the PATIENCE and CUSTOMER SERVICE the rangers here exhibit, having to deal with outdoor inexperienced tourists daily. People don't realize these same rangers also pick up all the garbage, clean the graffiti, scrub the dirty vault toilets (do people not know how to aim it in the toilet???), remediate trails and campsites, and the list goes on.... basically they have to clean and fix everything that many tourists do to pollute, vandalize, alter, and destroy the monument everyday. AND then they put on a smile, answer questions, give directions, educate about the area, provide informative talks and junior ranger programs for kids - they do it all here!THANK YOU to all the rangers at the Escalante monument!

Jonathan Feng

2022-05

Great stop to get helpful information and trial map. Lots of information and maps available outdoor even when the visitor center is closed.

skylar walter

2023-06

a fantastic visitor center! they offer 4 different Junior Ranger books, friendly rangers, a small gift shop, and museum of the area! outdoor picnic tables and restrooms.

Kyle Dewey

2023-11

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Angus Bennion

2020-05

A good place to fill up on water, use the bathroom, and get helpful information about the area.

Coffee Critic

2023-05

The staff here are great. I asked about the availability of springs in Coyote Gulch. One of the rangers then took the time to hand-mark the location of reliable springs on a topo map. I bought that map. This was extremely useful.

Mark Pabst

2021-05

A great place to get information on all the local sites which can be hard to find due to the 'disperse' nature of this type of recreation.

Alexa Winkler

2020-05

Stopped here before backpacking in Coyote Gulch to get our permit and we were so impressed! The staff here helped us out soooo much and gave us great advice and directions. If it weren't for the staff, we would've taken a road that was way too washed out for my car to access. The facility is also very nice.

Stephen Graham

2022-05

Nice visitor's center. Lots of brochures, fliers, maps, and souvenirs. Friendly and helpful staff.

Vasyl Yurchyshyn

2023-11

Helpful staff, Informative center with an exhibition and tiny gift shop. Clean restrooms.

Nikou K

2020-05

Thanks to this visitor center we had a near death experience. This visitor center was where we came to get a map and information about spooky and peekaboo gulch. The map they gave us did not include dry fork. WHAT KIND OF MAP EXCLUDES PLACES? We thought we were in one of the canyons on the map. This caused us to get very lost. While we were there the lady was complaining about people going places off the trail and leaving footprints where they shouldn't. Perhaps that's because there is NO trail or signs . We were just walking above the canyon looking for a way down which was very dangerous. We found footprints to follow which were cow foot prints. They gave us directions such as a tree and rocks to find when we got out of the canyon to loop into another canyon. There were trees and rocks absolutely everywhere. We were so lost that we were there until dark. We could have died sleeping there at night.

Rod Watkins

2019-05

All BLM visitors center are not created equal and Escalante is fortunate to have a very nice facility, but much more important, they have a fabulous staff who go out of their way to provide information, maps, directions and excitement about the wonderful places they have to visit. If you want to make the most of your time in the northern portion of the Escalante Grand Staircase, make this your first stop and they can help you make great choices. This is our nation’s government at its best.

Steve G

2023-08

Stop and talk to the ranger. This is an amazing spot to learn and find out about the amazing wonder of Escalante and non marked sites.

Sara Steinmetz

2023-06

We are from our of state and really wanted some information. We had a map thrown at us by a very bored employee. Not a good look for your state.

Jacob Biller

2016-05

Good source of information on the surrounding federal lands, and has a few exhibits. They do sell some souvenirs and has outdoor bathrooms. Also has a water hydrant to fill up water containers while camping.

PappyBob Hartman

2022-05

October 2021: Good stop for important info. Sad that their exhibit was closed for COVID. Restrooms absolutely, undeniably filthy. Even COVID would hesitate visiting here to relieve itself.

Ryan Whiteside

2023-05

What an excellent visitor center. Knowledgeable and helpful staff that is paired with excellent exhibits and intereptive info.

Alessandro Frati

2023-05

NPS stamps are available here.

Kaci Mespelt

2020-05

Really nice building and staff is nice, but it's annoying how rangers ALWAYS try and convince you not to do hikes. I wish you guys would give the cons AND PROS of hikes not just always trying to scare people off.