{"id":7858,"date":"2017-02-18T01:21:33","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T01:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acrossutah.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=7858"},"modified":"2021-02-23T07:17:34","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T07:17:34","slug":"stone-donkey-canyon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.acrossutah.com\/wordpress\/stone-donkey-canyon\/","title":{"rendered":"Stone Donkey Canyon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stone Donkey Canyon<\/strong> is a short tributary to Hackberry Canyon<\/strong><\/a> in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument<\/strong>. It’s a short diversion for anyone hiking Hackberry including those on the Hayduke Trail<\/a><\/strong>. It’s easy to miss the junction with Hackberry as it’s extremely overgrown. Once through the initial wall of vegetation it’s not that bad, through it remains somewhat brushy until past the spring in the lower end of the canyon.<\/p>\n

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Lower Stone Donkey Canyon<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s dries up above the spring and then the middle portion of the canyon features a white sandy corridor walled in by tall Navajo sandstone.<\/p>\n

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Stone Donkey Canyon<\/p><\/div>\n

In less than two miles from the Hackberry, Stone Donkey narrows down into a tight, dark slot canyon. The slot can can be explored from the bottom, or via a technical route from the top. The canyon frequently has pools at its lower end and can be nearly pitch black in one section.<\/p>\n

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