A 15-acre fire is burning in Utah’s Dark Canyon Wilderness, about 45 miles west of Monticello. On Tuesday, smoke was reported in the wilderness area near Brushy Knoll. It has been slow-grow ...

Read about Dark Canyon Wilderness a cherry-stemmed, motorized route, a mysterious, inexplicable, and totally intriguing road deep into a canyon that had long ago been limited to foot traffic.

– I’ve been meaning to explore Dark Canyon with a fly rod in hand since I first encountered it more than a decade ago. Despite its ominous name, the canyon proved inviting at midday in August, when I ...

1984: Congress establishes the Dark Canyon Wilderness Area: 47,116 acres just north of Bears Ears Buttes. 1989: BLM proposes 400,000 acre National Conservation Area for the Cedar Mesa-Grand Gulch ...