Uploaded March 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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This virtual road trip video will take you through the Kaiparowits Plateau, which is a remote mountaintop region in south-central Utah inside the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and recently renowned for its treasure chest of dinosaur fossils. The plateau offers a combination of road trips, either leaving out of the towns of Big Water or Escalante, but on the one showcased here, we’ll travel the north half of the Kaiparowits by starting and ending in Escalante using Hole in the Rock and Smoky Mountain Roads.

Read more at BackRoadsWest.com/blog/kaiparowits-plateau-road-trip

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00:00 Introduction
00:49 Geologic Background
02:55 Grand Staircase-Escalante
04:31 Tour Summary
09:24 Aerial View of Tour
12:32 Full Tour

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