About this place
Peek-A-Boo, also called Red Canyon, is a short, easy walk of 0.7 miles there and back, into one of the finest slot canyons around.
The walls are orange sandstone, and they photograph well.
Inside you will find ancient Moqui Steps cut into the wall, and logs wedged between the walls above your head.
Getting there is the hard part. Deep sand makes the route difficult, and sometimes impassable.
Flash floods have pushed boulders into the canyon in recent years, leaving drop-offs that can be awkward. Those floods keep changing the height of the obstacles, adding sediment or washing it away.
The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Visitor Center in Kanab has maps and current conditions.
The facts
- Cost
- Camping fee not confirmed
- Roads around it
- Deep sand. Difficult, and sometimes impassable
- Type
- Specific campsite
- Managed by
- Bureau of Land Management
Getting there
Go north of Kanab for 9 miles, then turn east after the Peek-A-Boo sign by the highway. You go up a small hill and over a cattle guard into a large gravel parking area.
On the eastern side of that parking area is BLM route 102. Follow route 102 until you reach a wash. A wash is a dry riverbed. From there, head west onto BLM route 106H and follow the wash until it dead ends at the slot canyon.
The route to the trailhead is deep sand. It needs a four-wheel high-clearance vehicle, and even those may not get through in the summer months. Most people ride in from the trailhead on an ATV or a UTV.
Coordinates 37.17928616, -112.5597135
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What is near here
A few more of our own spots are within reach of this one, along with some better-known places.
- Pipe Spring National Monument Directions
- Cottonwood Point Wilderness Directions
- Zion National Park Directions
- Canaan Mountain Wilderness Directions
- The Wave Directions
Every distance on this page is the driving distance. A short distance can still take a long time. The road may be closed for the season, covered in snow, or washed out. Many of these roads are dirt. Plan your route before you leave home. Out here there is often no phone signal to look it up on the way.
Nearest town and supplies
- Orderville, UT Directions
- Kanab, UT Directions
Kanab is big enough that you’d normally expect fuel and somewhere to buy food. Nobody from here has been to check, so don’t count on it if you’re running low.
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Where this information comes from
The description on this page is ours. The facts in it, and the fee and facility details below it, come from the Bureau of Land Management’s own records, read in August 2026.