Dark Canyon Wilderness Recreation Area

The United States Congress designated the Dark Canyon Wilderness in 1984 . Great stone arches, old-growth ponderosa pine, aspen groves, meadows, hanging gardens and high country deserts are found at Dark Canyon.  The only designated Wilderness in southeastern Utah, the 47,116-acre Dark Canyon Wilderness is located in a beautiful and remote section of the Colorado Plateau.  Visitors are dwarfed by steep, sculpted and terraced sandstone walls that shade the canyon in morning and late afternoon --...