Zebra Slot Canyon Trail Map
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To reach Tunnel Slot, go down Harris Wash a little less than a mile (20-30 minutes) from Zebra to the first side canyon coming in on the left. Go up this side canyon about 10 minutes to reach the Tunnel. It can be dry, or a deep pool. Return up Harris Wash to Halfway Hollow and follow the trail back to the trailhead. Zebra and Tunnel Slots is a 6.6 mile heavily trafficked loop trail located near Escalante, Utah that offers the chance to see wildlife and is rated as moderate. The trail is primarily used for hiking, walking, and nature trips and is best used from March until November. Dogs are also able to use this trail but must be kept on leash. Willis Creek Slot Canyon is located off Skutumpah Road in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. The hike is a 4.8-mile round trip, but you can turn around after you finish the narrows section, making it a 2.6-mile round trip. The trail gains a scant 300 feet as it follows the perennial Willis Creek.

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Zebra Canyon

This colorful slot canyon is one of a handful of small ravines cut by tributaries of Utah's Harris Wash. Compared to the vast canyons of the Grand Staircase, these small slot canyons seem insignificant. But small discoveries like these can be quite enjoyable. Crawling through the striped sandstone of Zebra Canyon offers a pleasant break from hiking the unshaded Harris Wash.
From Escalante's Hole-in-the-Rock Road, a trail along Halfway Hollow leads to Harris Wash. This popular route straightens out most of the riverbed meanders. Head upstream at Harris Wash (northwest) for a quarter mile, there you'll find the streambed that created this natural work of art, Zebra Canyon.
Nearly 75 years ago, a young Californian, Everett Ruess (ROO-ess) headed down this same Hole-in-the -Rock Road. The sandy-haired kid spent four years wandering the Southwest prior to his arrival at Escalante. Ruess was enthralled with the area and wrote, 'I have seen more beauty that I can bare.' After his departure from Escalante, Ruess was never seen again. All that remained were theories and Everett's graffiti spread over Davis Gulch.
Recently, a Navajo legend surfaced, relating a story of a young man being chased by three Utes Natives at Comb Ridge over 75 years ago. A young Aneth Nez witnessed the murder of a young man fitting the description of Ruess. Later in life, a medicine man treating Nez drew out the story, the source of Nez's ailments. Treatment required a lock of hair from body of this young wanderer. Upon hearing the story, Bellson, a grandson of Aneth Nez, began his own investigated into this remarkable Navajo legend and eventually located the remains of the young man killed 75 years ago nearby Comb Ridge and Chinle Wash.
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Slot Canyons > Escalante River > Harris Wash and Side Canyons

Long, deep and relatively wide drainage providing an obstruction-free hiking route to the Escalante River. Four tributaries have slots, most unusual (and shortest) being stripy Zebra Slot and enclosed Tunnel Slot. The other two (Big Horn Canyon and Red Breaks) are described separately

Length: 4.3 miles to Zebra Slot, 5.3 miles to Tunnel Slot (less 1.9 miles if approaching via Halfway Hollow)
Difficulty: Easy
Management: BLM
Rocks: Navajo sandstone
Season: All year, though Tunnel Slot may flood after wet weather
Trailhead:4.5 miles down the Hole-in-the-Rock Road (or 3.5 miles further for Halfway Hollow)
Rating (1-5):★★★★★

Harris Wash offers an easy route to the Escalante River and is popular with both people and cattle - many visitors hike the lower 10 miles, usually on overnight backpacking trips, while the upper stretches are grazed extensively all year. The canyon becomes 1,200 feet deep and has impressive streaked Navajo sandstone walls, large rock alcoves, pools and year-round flowing water in the lower reaches which sustains many trees, bushes and flowers. It has no obstructions and although never very narrow, some of its tributaries are true slot canyons and are much less often visited, as the best ones, which are characterised by unusual rock colors and textures, start upstream of the regular trailhead.

Zebra Slot Canyon Trail Map

Topographic Map of Harris Wash

Location

Harris Wash is just about the longest tributary of the Escalante River - it starts high in the Kaiparowits Plateau, where it is known as

Zebra Slot Canyon Trail Map New Mexico

Alvey Wash and is followed for a while by the upper end of Smoky Mountain Road. The stream flows northwards to Escalante town then turns abruptly southeast, runs close to UT 12 for a while and crosses the Hole-in-the-Rock Road at mile 4 where it changes name. Harris Wash meets the main river after another 20 miles and the hike can begin here, but the usual starting point (for the lower canyon) is further downstream, reached by a side road - see the location section of Red Breaks for details. For exploring the upper tributaries, there are two options for the approach - either walk down Harris Wash starting from the main road, or, the usual option, take a short-cut along a tributary (Halfway Hollow), which meets the road 3.5 miles further south.

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10 views of Harris Wash and side canyons. Zebra slot canyon trail map texas

Zebra Slot Canyon Trail Map Directions

Zebra Slot Canyon Trail Map South Rim

Route Description

There is not much to see in upper Harris Wash. 1.8 miles east of the Hole-in-the-Rock Road, Big Horn Canyon joins from the north - this is a long drainage with two branches and plenty of interesting narrow sections. Continuing downstream, the main wash remains quite wide and the stony streambed winds between grassy sandbanks, sometimes past sheer cliffs with occasional small overhangs while at other places the sides are much less steep. Several very short, curving slot canyons join from the north but the next worthwhile tributary is not reached for 4.3 miles (or 2.4 miles via Halfway Hollow), at a point where the wash becomes rather wide and turns due south, just before the junction with Halfway Hollow - this is the second main side canyon to the south, the other being Cottonwood Wash.

A short walk up a wide sandy gully enters what has become known as Zebra Slot. The stone walls quickly constrict and the rock coloration changes from plain greyish red to pretty, delicately striped white/orange bands - an unusual combination, and very photogenic. The canyon becomes extremely narrow and twisting but is blocked after only about 100 yards by a near vertical dryfall that rises 10 feet then beyo