Wire Pass Trailhead, Desert trailhead near Kanab, United States.
Wire Pass Trailhead is an unpaved trailhead on House Rock Valley Road, 8.3 miles south of US 89 in Kane County, Utah. The trail surface is reddish-brown sand and gravel with scattered rocks, and a shallow rut runs along the left side. From the parking area, the day hike to Wire Pass Narrows begins opposite the trailhead in the wash.
Wire Pass Trailhead sits in the Paria Canyon–Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, about 8.3 miles south of US 89 along House Rock Valley Road on the Utah side of the state line. The wash opposite the lot leads north into Wire Pass Narrows and on to Buckskin Gulch. The Bureau of Land Management limits entry to the North and South Coyote Buttes Wilderness Areas, and the day hike to the narrows carries a fee collected at the trailhead.
The trailhead sits in the Paria Canyon–Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, a landscape crossed by the wash that leads north to Wire Pass Narrows and Buckskin Gulch. Hikers today follow this same wash, sharing the route with those heading to North Coyote Buttes and the Wave.
House Rock Valley Road is dirt and turns slick and muddy after rain, though it is normally passable in a passenger vehicle. The trailhead has a pit toilet at the parking lot but no campsites; the nearest campsite with a pit toilet lies 2 miles further south. The day hike to Wire Pass Narrows starts opposite the trailhead, heading north up the wash.
The trailhead sits on the Utah side of the Utah–Arizona border, about halfway between Kanab, Utah and Page, Arizona, 8.3 miles south of US 89 along House Rock Valley Road. The dirt road is normally passable in a passenger vehicle but turns slick and muddy with rain. A pit toilet stands at the parking lot, and the nearest campsite with a pit toilet lies 2 miles further south down the road.
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