Tours

Escape Adventures, Escalante Cyclery’s affiliated outfitter, offers multi-day mountain biking, road cycling, hiking, and multi-sport adventures to Escalante and more. Follow any of the links in the tour descriptions below to reach the Escape Adventures website, and find out more about how to become part of one of our outdoor adventures.

Road Biking Multi-Day Tours

Escalante & Capitol Reef Road Bike Tour

6 Days, Spring, Summer, Fall

Our cycling tour goes eastward through contrasting desert scenery and high alpine forests along Utah Highway 12 (among Americas most scenic highways) to Capitol Reef National Park. Named for the white sandstone dome that bears a striking resemblance to our nation’s capitol building, this national park protects an immense uplift know as the Waterpocket Fold. Long winding roads cut through a maze of canyons and an assembly of arches and monoliths make it seem as if this natural uplift was custom-made just for cyclists! Between rides, we relax in the quaint hamlets of Boulder and Escalante. Remote and sparsely populated, this Escalante and Capitol Reef road bike tour is for anyone looking for un-crowded roads and a backcountry experience.

Mountain Biking Multi-Day Tours

Escalante Singletrack Mountain Bike Tour

6 Days, Summer and Fall

From the high alpine terrain of the Aquarius Plateau, to the deep canyons of the Escalante River, discover a fantastic array of backcountry cycling! These primitive trails reveal secret canyons and spectacular mountain vistas. Trip highlights include cycling atop the highest plateau in North America, visiting John Wesley Powell’s favorite lookout point, cycling across Hell’s Backbone and the exciting Gap Mountain Trail. For skilled riders who match go-deep endurance with long-in-the-saddle experience, Escalante Mountain Singletrack is nothing less than a superb, multifaceted trip.

Escalante Intro Mountain Bike Tour

6 Days, Summer and Fall

From the high alpine terrain of the Aquarius Plateau, to the deep canyons of the Escalante River, discover a fantastic array of backcountry cycling! These primitive trails reveal secret canyons and spectacular mountain vistas. Trip highlights include cycling atop the highest plateau in North America, visiting John Wesley Powell’s favorite lookout point, cycling across Hell’s Backbone and the exciting Gap Mountain Trail. The Escalante Intro Mountain Bike Tour provides all the same enormous vistas, though set on far less challenging dirt roads mixed with doubletracks.

Escalante Lower Canyons Adventure

6 Days, Spring, Summer, and Fall

Through the Grand Staircase of Escalante National Monument and Capitol Reef National Park a seemingly endless array of arches and monoliths make for a visually dazzling landscape. On bikes turned search engine, we ride over and around a western version of Stonehenge, exploring places with names as intriguing as the terrain itself: Hell’s Backbone, Spooky Canyon, Death Box Hollow Wilderness, and Brimstone Canyon. Between rides and hikes we kick back in the small ranching-farming hamlets of Boulder and Escalante, both of which hark back to a gentler, more intimate Americaness.

The Aquarius Trail Backcountry Hut Trip

6 Days, Summer and Fall

Welcome to Utah’s Color Country, one of the greatest places in the world to ride your bike. Ride the Aquarius Trail and enjoy the marvels and scenery from the peak of Brian Head, through Panguitch, Hatch and Bryce, down to the beautiful town of Escalante. From the seat of your bike you will experience, Brian Head Peak at a towering 11,306ft, down Proctor Canyon into quaint little town of Hatch. Meander past the Tropic Reservoir and ride on into Red Canyon, home of the infamous Thunder Mountain Trail and the Red Canyon Bike Path. Keep exploring all the Dixie National Forest has to offer; like a big climb up to the scenic Powell Point where John Wesley Powell surveyed Southern Utah. In the days ahead you’ll enjoy remote hut accommodations, secret singletrack and fast descents to more beautiful places. You won’t want to miss this!

Aquarius Trail Backcountry Hut System

The Aquarius Trail Hut System provides and supports a backcountry experience like no other! A system of five huts are strategically placed along a 190 mile route through some of Utah’s most scenic backcountry – spanning from the peak of Brian Head at 11,307’ to the beautiful town of Escalante at 5,820’. The section of Utah called “Color Country” includes many well-known attractions such as Powell Point, Brianhead Ski Resort, Red Canyon, Aquarius Plateau, Dixie National Forest, the Hogback, Escalante National Monument, spectacular views riding past Bryce Canyon National Park, and much much more!

From the seat of your bike, you’ll enjoy remote hut accommodations, purpose built singletrack to wild singletrack, challenging jeep tracks, dirt roads, hidden lakes, and spectacular vistas. E-bikes are allowed at each hut so groups of mixed abilities can enjoy the same adventure. Our huts provide a luxury bikepacking experience, complete with showers, solar power for charging electronic devices, fully stocked kitchens with a refrigerator and freezer, lighting, hammocks, large decks, bathroom facilities, bicycle repair tools and stands, playing cards, fire pit, cozy sleeping arrangements, and more.