Peekaboo

Peekaboo is Canyonlands at its most demanding and most rewarding — nearly eleven miles of route-finding across slickrock benches, down into Wooden Shoe Canyon, and through the quiet depths of Lost Canyon. This is not a manicured trail. You will scramble up two metal ladders bolted into cliff faces, navigate steep sandstone slopes where the path is marked by cairns rather than tread, and cross terrain that shifts from packed dirt to bare rock without warning. The views from the high benches are staggering — layered canyon walls in every shade of red and orange stretching to the La Sal Mountains. The payoff is the solitude and the scale: you will feel genuinely small out here, in the best possible way. This trail belongs to hikers who want to earn their views and do not mind using their hands.