As the monument’s hyphenated name suggests, the BLM-managed site has two main areas: Grand Staircase and Escalante Canyons, separated by the 1,600-square-mile Kaiparowits Plateau. Grand ...

Is that the right word for the Colorado Plateau, this thirsty sprawl of ... national monument Grand Staircase-Escalante, created only in 1996, off-road vehicles plow tracks that won't disappear ...

One such landscape is the Colorado Plateau, which spans more than 336,000 square kilometers (83 million acres) across four states and encompasses iconic sites such as the Grand Canyon and Arches ...