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Escalante Interagency Visitor Center Museum
A visitor center on Highway 12 in Escalante staffed together by the BLM, the National Park Service and the Forest Service. Its exhibit room covers the geology and ecosystem of Grand Staircase-Escalante's nearly one million acres, and a small theater shows the film Traces in Time. Staff also hand out information on the Dixie National Forest and Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, and there is a covered picnic area out front.
What is inside
- Exhibit room on the monument's geology and ecosystem
- Traces in Time, a film on science and human history in the monument
- Covered picnic area with four tables
- One of the Interior Department's first Gold LEED-rated buildings, opened 2005
Good for
- Science
- Outdoors
- Road trips
- A free day out
From the museum's own site, checked October 2026. Something changed? Tell us.
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