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BLM limits access to the North Coyote Buttes Wilderness Area to just 64 permits per day. [2] 48 of the permits are available in advance by an online lottery conducted four months before the month for which the permit is sought. The remaining 16 permits are made available by geofenced daily lottery two days before one's intended hike. [3]
Coyote Buttes is a section of the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). It spans extreme south-central Utah and north-central Arizona, south of US 89 halfway between Kanab, Utah and Page, Arizona. It is divided into two areas: Coyote Buttes North and Coyote Buttes South. A hiking permit is ...
The Wave formation in Coyote Buttes. Hiking is the most common recreational activity in the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, followed by camping, photography, and canyoneering. Hikes through Paria Canyon are popular. The White House Trailhead is the main entrance and, therefore, more popular than the other trailheads in the Wilderness.
This national monument, 293,689 acres (118,852 ha) [1] in area, protects the Paria Plateau, Vermilion Cliffs, Coyote Buttes, and Paria Canyon. Elevations in the monument range from 3,100 feet to 6,500 feet above sea level (944 to 1,981 meters).
Recently, a petition was filed to the U.S. Board on Geographic Names to change the name of the Sutter Buttes.
From this trailhead, some of the hike options are the North Coyote Buttes to the Wave, to Wire Pass Narrows and onward to Buckskin Gulch. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) limits access to the North and South Coyote Buttes Wilderness Areas. The day hike to Wire Pass Narrows begins opposite the trailhead in the wash.
Jemez National Forest in New Mexico was established as the Jemez Forest Reserve by the U.S. Forest Service on October 12, 1905 with 1,237,205 acres (5,006.79 km 2).It became a National Forest on March 4, 1907.
In the 1840s, Kit Carson and Gen. John C. Fremont, fresh from their savage massacres of Native Americans in the north state, hid out in the buttes and plotted to seize California from Mexico.