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Cave Point to Fiftymile Creek

Canyons of the Escalante | Thursday, October 15, 2026

After a very wet start to the week, we finally made it out the Hole-in-the-Rock Road to the Sooner Rocks late on Wednesday afternoon, ate our dinners and then went to bed after dark. I got a great night of sleep and we both woke up shortly before sunrise on Thursday morning so we could spend the day hiking into Fiftymile Creek. We had been planning to hike into Fiftymile Creek back in 2022 after our hike into Davis Gulch, but I got sick on that day and headed home early instead, so I was really looking forward to getting back and finally getting to go on this hike!

Fiftymile Point to Davis Gulch & The Hole-in-the-Rock

Canyons of the Escalante | Southern Utah Wanderings
Wednesday – Friday, October 5-7, 2022

After spending the last day and a half along the western end of the Vermilion Cliffs we headed back over the Paunsaugunt Plateau and returned to Escalante early on Wednesday afternoon. While we were in town we grabbed some dinner and topped off our fuel tanks before heading southeast down the Hole-in-the-Rock Road below the Straight Cliffs. Surprisingly, the road was in better condition than we were expecting and we made great time to the Davis Gulch Trailhead located just below Fiftymile Point. We still had plenty of time until sunset, so we decided to continue on to the very end of the road so we could maybe hike down the Hole-in-the-Rock to Lake Powell. I hadn’t been out to the end of the Hole-in-the-Rock Road since 2009, so it was nice to refresh my memory of the area.

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