Other arches can be seen at Devils Garden, where a natural bridge can be seen by hiking up the Escalante River from Hwy 12 to Escalante Natural Bridge (2 miles one way). Many of the arches and bridges are further back in the backcountry areas and one needs to backpack or hike into these areas.

Detailed information is available at the visitor centers.

Across the Colorado Plateau, water has eroded countless canyons in thousands of feet of undeformed layers of sediment, creating unforgettable landforms. In many places in the Monument, the familiar stepped-back canyons and mesas are replaced with equally dramatic slot canyons.

These narrow passageways, some only ten inches wide at the bottom, form when rock is the same composition from top to bottom. Streams carrying grains of sand and larger rocks cut down like a chainsaw through wood. The rock's uniform hardness does not provide an opportunity for the water to erode one part more than another, so the canyon remains almost the same width as it wears down. Walking in the soft, rock-muted light of slot canons, it is easy to forget that these narrow passageways can easily become death traps, sometimes caused by a storm miles and miles away. It is important never to drop into or climb up into a hole or ledge that you cannot climb back out of, many of the slots do not continue through and it is possible to get trapped.

For more information on slot canyons, talk with the staff at the Escalante Visitors Center. The most easily accessible slot canyons, Peek-a-Boo and Spooky are located off of the Hole in the Rock Road.