MARCH 2007, MARCH 2008, APRIL 2012, NOVEMBER 2018 & SEPTEMBER 2023
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| LITTLE WILD HORSE CANYON |
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| LITTLE WILD HORSE CANYON |
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LITTLE WILD HORSE CANYON
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Little Wild Horse Canyon is one of the best non-technical slot canyons there is. It is also easily accessible, as the trailhead is located just six miles west of Goblin Valley via a well-maintained dirt road. Due to the popularity of the hike, a restroom is even provided at the parking area. The narrows begin about a half-mile from the trailhead and continue for about two-and-a-half miles before the canyon opens up. There are no major obstacles and no equipment is needed. The first time I hiked Little Wild Horse, I combined it with Bell Canyon for an eight-mile loop hike. While Bell Canyon is nice, it is not nearly as cool as Little Wild Horse, so I would recommend just walking up Little Wild Horse for three miles and returning back the way you came for an amazing six-mile round-trip hike.
Little Wild Horse was the first slot canyon I ever hiked back in 2007, and it is what inspired me to keep coming back to southern Utah. I wondered why I had never heard of it until then. I had mistakenly assumed that all the cool stuff in southern Utah was located within the National Parks. However, I later found that there were many National Park-quality areas located on BLM land, without the crowds of the National Parks. Its been over ten years now, and I'm still learning about new places like this in southern Utah that I never knew existed.
When we visited in September, 2023, we had to do a bit of wading towards the start of the narrows. The water was only about knee deep, but it was a fairly long stretch, so we took our shoes and socks off to keep them dry. The rest of the canyon above this section was dry. As we were hiking this during the later afternoon on the Sunday of Labor Day Weekend, we only saw two or three other groups of hikers while were there.
