Approximate location — plotted from published sources, not a site visit, and not a guarantee of access.
The San Juan Mission of Latter-day Saint pioneers cut the Hole-in-the-Rock Trail in 1879–80 from the Escalante country to Bluff. The modern Hole-in-the-Rock Road follows much of the western approach for about 62 miles from Highway 12 to the crevice above Lake Powell, where the company blasted and cribbed a wagon descent to the Colorado. Management is split among Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument, Glen Canyon NRA, and other BLM lands.