Hole-in-the-Rock Trail

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Hole in the Rock Trail is a historic trail running east-southeast from near the town of Escalante in southern Utah in the western United States. The Mormon settlers who established this trail crossed the Colorado River and ended their journey in the town of Bluff.”
Wikipedia article Hole in the Rock Trail, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Garfield County · listed in 1982 · category: Structure.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. A trail commencing at Escalante, Utah and terminating at Bluff, Utah, Escalante, 84533
When was it listed? August 1982
Category. structure
National Register reference number. 82004792 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Hole-in-the-Rock Trail between 2014 and 2016, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Recreation and ceremony	1
Debris and open burning	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
25 August 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Glen Canyon National Recreation Area	MOQUI BULL
30 June 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Glen Canyon National Recreation Area	FORGOTTEN CANYON

Every fire recorded in Garfield County

Storms near this property

39 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Escalante, the town this property stands in, in 39 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 33 flash flood, 4 hail, 1 flood, 1 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 1997	Hail	Escalante	$7,000	no account filed
June 2025	Flash Flood	Escalante	-	The USGS Escalante River gauge (ESCU1) spiked to 2491 cfs as the flood wave moved through.
August 2023	Flash Flood	Escalante	-	The Escalante River at Escalante gauge was at 583 cfs.
October 2022	Flash Flood	Escalante	-	The Escalante at Escalante river gauge peaked at 518 cfs with a flood wave around 7 p.m.
July 2022	Flash Flood	Escalante	-	A thunderstorm moved along Birch Creek near state Route 12, east of the town of Escalante. Multi-Radar/Multi-Sensor rainfall 1-hour estimates were around 1 to 1.5 inches in the vicinity of Birch Creek, near the confluence with the Escalante River. A video from social media showed that this resulted in flash flooding on Birch Creek into the Escalante River.
September 2022	Flash Flood	Escalante	-	Nearby thunderstorms with moderate rainfall resulted in 3-hour Multi-Radar/Multi-Sensor accumulation estimates of around 0.25 to 0.75 inches. The Pine Creek near Escalante stream gauge spiked to a peak flow of 228 CFS at 7:15 pm MST.
September 2022	Flash Flood	Escalante	-	A thunderstorm moved through portions of the Escalante River drainage basin, producing moderate rainfall, with widespread 3-hour Multi-Radar/Multi-Sensor rainfall estimates of 0.50 to 1.00 inches in upstream tributary areas. This generated a flood wave that propagated downstream, resulting in the Escalante near Escalante river gauge spiking to 804 CFS at 9:50 pm MST.
August 2022	Flash Flood	Escalante	-	A video from social media showed significant flows on Alvey Wash, with at least several inches of water and debris flowing across Cedar Wash Road. Location is approximate.
July 2021	Flash Flood	Escalante	-	A video showed flash flooding at the confluence of Birch and North Creeks into the Escalante River.
July 2021	Flash Flood	Escalante	-	Several reports of flash flooding in and around Escalante, including Birch Creek. Storm spotters reported logs and trees floating in the Escalante River just north of Escalante. Time of event coincident with time of first report.
August 2021	Flash Flood	Escalante	-	The Escalante River near Escalante gauge indicated an increase in flow of 1440 CFS, corresponding to a rise of over 5 feet.
September 2021	Flash Flood	Escalante	-	The Escalante River gauge near Escalante rose from 375 CFS to a peak of 1840 CFS.
July 2020	Flash Flood	Escalante	-	The Escalante River at Escalante gauge reported an increase in flow from about 10 cubic feet per second to 548 cubic feet per second in less than 30 minutes.
June 2020	Hail	Escalante	-	Quarter-sized hail was reported in Garfield County.
August 2019	Heavy Rain	Escalante	-	The Buck Flats RAWS recorded a rainfall total of 1.34 inches in less than an hour, leading to flash flooding around Escalante.
August 2019	Flash Flood	Escalante	-	Pine Creek Road was washed out in several places from flash flooding.
August 2019	Flash Flood	Escalante	-	Flash flooding occurred in and near Escalante, and along the Escalante River. The Escalante River went from 1 to 2273 CFS with the peak flood wave.
September 2017	Flash Flood	Escalante	-	Flash flooding was reported across many tributaries of the Escalante River.
July 2017	Flash Flood	Escalante	-	Flash flooding occurred along the headwaters of the Escalante River, including along Birch Creek and Upper Valley Creek.
September 2016	Flash Flood	Escalante	-	Flash flooding was reported along the Escalante River, with readings at the river gauge increasing from under 50 cfs to over 1500 cfs in a short period of time.
July 2014	Flash Flood	Escalante	-	Pine Creek, a tributary of the Escalante River, experienced a flash flood due to heavy rainfall. Flows on Pine Creek reached 1000 cfs before the creek flowed into the larger Escalante River.
July 2013	Flash Flood	Escalante	-	Flash flooding occurred along the Escalante River and its tributaries, with the Escalante River gauge rising from near zero to 746 cfs in a short period of time.
July 2013	Flash Flood	Escalante	-	Flash flooding was reported along the Alvey Wash and other smaller tributaries of the Escalante River.
September 2013	Flash Flood	Escalante	-	The Escalante River gauge near Escalante rose from near zero cfs to 2200 cfs in one hour.
August 2012	Flash Flood	Escalante	-	Flash flooding was reported along the Escalante River, where it runs adjacent to State Route 12. Some water crossed over the road west of the city of Escalante.
August 2011	Flash Flood	Escalante	-	Heavy rain caused flash flooding along Alvey Wash.
August 2011	Hail	Escalante	-	Hail with a diameter of 0.75 inches was reported in Escalante.
August 2011	Flash Flood	Escalante	-	Personnel from the Grand Staircase Escalante-National Monument reported flash flooding along Alvey Wash.
August 2011	Flash Flood	Escalante	-	Flash flooding occurred on the northern tributaries of the Escalante River, especially on North Creek and the North Fork of Birch Creek. This flooding eventually made its way down the Escalante, with a gauge along the Escalante quickly increasing to 1700 cfs. Note that flash flooding also occurred further downstream in Kane County.
October 2010	Flood	Escalante	-	Flooding occurred across many drainages in Garfield County, including Calf Creek and the Escalante River. The Escalante River, which typically flows below 10 cfs, reached a peak of 1300 cfs on October 5th. In addition, the Dirty Devil River, which normally flows at 10 to 20 cfs, reached a peak of 6300 cfs on October 6th.
July 2010	Flash Flood	Escalante	-	Flash flooding was reported along Calf Creek and in surrounding drainages at the headwaters of the Escalante River.
August 2010	Flash Flood	Escalante	-	Heavy rain caused flash flooding in Alvey Wash, North Creek, and many other washes in the area.
August 2008	Flash Flood	Escalante	-	Heavy rain caused flash flooding along the Escalante tributaries of Pine Creek and Wide Hollow drainages, north of Escalante. The Escalante River gauge rose to 1088 cfs.
July 2008	Flash Flood	Escalante	-	A flash flood occurred at Alvey Wash near Escalante due to heavy rain.
September 2006	Flash Flood	Escalante	-	Large flash flood along the Escalante River and headwaters entering Lake Powell. Hydro gauges show Deer Creek and Boulder Creek gauges increasing from near 0 cfs to 2000-3000 cfs within minutes.
July 2003	Flash Flood	Escalante	-	Heavy downpours brought another flash flood to the Gulch area east of Capitol Reef National Park.
August 2001	Hail	Escalante	-	A severe thunderstorm dropped 1 inch to 1.5 inch hail on Escalante...along with brief heavy rain.
June 2004	Flash Flood	Escalante	-	no account filed
July 2003	Flash Flood	Escalante	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Garfield County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82004792 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Garfield County	All 26 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.