Lower Calf Creek Fall, located fifteen miles east of the town of Escalante, is only 300 yards from Utah Highway 12. Getting there is not so easy. Locate deep within the canyon, almost inaccessible from the road, requires visitors to take a 2.75 mile trail along the Escalante River. This splendid waterfall is created when Calf Creek flows over a 126 foot vertical cliff into a large pool below. The falls are enclosed on three sides by impressive Navajo sandstone cliffs. Rocks are covered in colorful shades of algae and also show long, vertical streaks of mineral staining.
The Grand Staircase area has become quite popular since its designation in September, 1996. The Escalante National Monument occupies almost two million square miles and a great deal of southern Utah. Visitors are treated to a rugged, primitive, and naturally beautiful area, including cliffs, plateaus, mesas, buttes, pinnacles, canyons, pictographs (petroglyphs), historic granaries and early inhabitant's artifacts.