YOUR GUIDES TO REMOTE &
FAMOUS LOCATIONS IN THE
GRAND STAIRCASE & VERMILION CLIFFS NATIONAL MONUMENTS.
Hello and welcome to the Paria Outpost & Outfitters! Nestled in the historic and scenic Paria River Valley, we are in the heart of the Southwest’s ‘Grand Circle’ of National Parks and Monuments. We’ve been providing photography and hiking tours in the Grand Staircase and Vermilion Cliffs National Monuments for 22 years. This is a vast landscape of a million and a half acres with strikingly diverse geology, containing some of the most colorful and picturesque shaped formations on the planet.
We are here to get you out to remote, beautiful locations so you can photograph and experience nature in the solitude it merits.
We can take you on an amazing journey to visit brainrocks, hoodoos, badlands, slot canyons, balanced rocks, and wildly colored formations.
We offer day trips, early morning until late afternoon or middle of the day until sunset, as well as overnights and photo workshops. We offer group and family rates. Kids 18 and under $100 each with 2 adults. Since our location is only a five minute drive from both Monument entrances, our tours are considerably longer than those who put in an hour and a half highway time to get here.
We are committed to showing you the best you can experience and photograph, as well as sharing information about the entire area. Additionally offering advice about road conditions and distances to locations you can visit on your own, if you have the time.
We can get you through the deep sand covering the five hundred square mile Vermilion Cliffs plateau to remote largely unvisited but extremely photogenic locations. Or, take you to the world-class Coyote Buttes and the increasingly famous White Pocket.
We can show you the best of the Southern Grand Staircase Monument’s incredibly diverse geology that includes canyons and slot canyons, valleys full of balanced rocks, arches, spires and domes of brightly colored rocks.
Let us help you explore and enjoy our magnificent backyard!
We wish to thank our friends Laurent Martres: author “Photographing the Southwest”, Jennifer Khordi Photography, Fred Carneau Photography, Matthias Sebald, Jim and Nina Pollock, and our guides for these many years, Dallas Barnhurst and Mike Leinen for their photo contributions.
All our tours are eight to nine hours long with as much hiking as you wish.
We provide lunch, water and cold drinks.
We don’t take money upfront for reservations. You can book your day and if the weather is bad or you can’t make it for some reason we don’t want your money. We accept cash or personal checks. Sorry, no plastic.
The only tours that need a permit are the North Coyote Buttes Wave and the South Coyote Buttes. We cannot obtain the permit for you.
All tours leave from The Paria Outpost, located on Highway 89, 30 minutes from Page, 10 minutes from Big Water, and 45 minutes from Kanab, Utah.
Please check out our tour pages and photo galleries, and let us show you great day!
We offer shuttles to and from the Wave trailhead
for $250 per group at your time preference.
TESTIMONIALS
THE BEST GUIDES ON EARTH!
Fantastic guide! I wish I had a guide like Steve on every trip. Words cannot describe his hospitality. We felt like VIPs the entire time. We started our tour from an outpost that is located 1 hour closer than Kanab from Coyote Buttes so our tour was two hours longer than usual, and we walked through 3 major points of South Coyote Buttes. The guided trip surpassed every expectation!
KKRAK
PROVO, UT
OUTSTANDING TOUR…GO WITH THEM VS. THE OTHER COMPANIES!
Excellent tour, Steve is a class act and was an excellent guide for White Pocket. Of our 3 week trip in the US this is one of our most memorable. He is also located closer to the entrance of the White Pocket / Wave area than the other companies in Page / Kanab so you get more time out!
Could not recommend it enough.
Alessandro B
CHECK OUT ALL OF OUR INCREDIBLE TOURS
CLICK ANY TOUR NAME TO VISIT THE TOUR PAGE
SOAP CREEK
Let us take you through the heart of the VERMILION CLIFFS out to the colorful, extremely photogenic formations of the remote, largely unvisited SOAP CREEK. A really great tour.
VERMILION CLIFFS
We can show you more of the remote part of the VERMILION CLIFFS, such as a hike through Pinnacle Valley, out to Middle Reservoir, the “Cowboy Hat” Formation, Double Barrel Arch or see petroglyph panels and ruins as well.
WHITE POCKET
Take another day to visit the increasingly famous WHITE POCKET, an other-worldly formation of brain rocks and colors. World Class and World-Famous photography. Easy hiking.
SIDESTEP CANYON
If you’re a good hiker hike the three miles or so to see largely unvisited SIDESTEP CANYON, a giant green-colored valley full of literally hundreds of balanced rocks, from 3 feet tall to 150 feet tall. Great for viewing a spectacular example of unique geology and excellent photographic opportunities.
YELLOW ROCK
Again, if you are a good hiker, make the short but somewhat steep climb up to YELLOW ROCK, for lovely, stunning colors and great views of the Cockscomb area.
NORTH OR SOUTH COYOTE BUTTES
The famous NORTH or SOUTH COYOTE BUTTES. If you can be in Kanab, Utah at 9 a.m., try the North Coyote Buttes Wave Lottery at the Kanab BLM visitor Center on Highway 89, or be there at 10 a.m. to try for a permit to the South Coyote Buttes, which, though less known, is easily as good or perhaps even better than the famous “Wave” that everyone wants. It’s easier to get this permit as well. However, only ten permits are available for each area per day at the Visitor Center. Permits are issued for the next day.
GRAND STAIRCASE
If you don’t want to hike much, we can take you on a mostly driving tour of the GRAND STAIRCASE. The COTTONWOOD CANYON ROAD and the SMOKEY MOUNTAIN ROAD are unbelievably eye-catching and photogenic, with lots of short stops and short hikes