Antelope Canyon?

Deb and Ed M wrote:
Fish Mojo - I LOVE your photo!!!! Did you hear where a black-and-white photo of the Slots bt Peter Lik sold for 6.5 million dollars!

I can't take credit for that photo. That came off Google images. I have several pictures with a point n shoot, nothing near that quality. Plus 50 people milling around taking their pictures.

Antelope Canyon is a truly amazing place. Pictures only can show so much, it needs to be experienced in person.

Fish Mojo - I LOVE your photo!!!! Did you hear where a black-and-white photo of the Slots bt Peter Lik sold for 6.5 million dollars!

The parking lot is just off the highway - you can park up, pay and walk down the canyon.

Steve.

Hopefully the mod will resize the pic.. :)

IIRC about the only place you can go in Antelope Cyn. Is to the parking lot. We could have gone in without a guide, but the history talk is worth it.

Harleybullet wrote:
Is it open all year.....what would consider the best months....thanks

Lighting is everything in the slot canyons. We were there in October and it was amazing. The Navajo guides say it is best for lighting when the sun is direct overhead May-July (but hot!!). Also, if there is a threat of heavy rain, no go due to flash flood risk.

Is it open all year.....what would consider the best months....thanks

Back in the day we could call an old Navajo Lady to pay and let us through the locked gate. We drove our own 4x4's back there and could stay all day. Now I believe there's a 45 minute limit and you have to take a tour, we've never been back. It's very commercial and a money maker for the tribe. There is an Upper and Lower Antelope, the Upper having the most photographed section of anyplace in the world. The slot canyons can be closed during monsoon season if rain is forecast because a whole tour lost lives except the bus driver one summer. Still, if you've never been it's something to see, just go with patience.

Upper Antelope Slot Canyon and Lower Antelope Slot Canyon are on Tribal Land. You must take a tour. You can drive a TC to their parking lots via Hwy 98 in Page. The two parking areas are across the road from each other. At the parking area you pay for the tour. Upper AC entails a couple mile ride in their Jeep/Truck type vehicle along a dirt river bed to reach the 1/4 mile long slot canyon. At Lower AC, a guide walks you to the entrance of that section.

You can also pick up a tour to Upper AC in the town of Page.

The slot canyon on land is not to be confused with the boat tour of AC (referenced above) which goes to the water end of the same slot canyon.

There is camping at Wahweap campground by the lake or Page Campground in town or boondocking at Lone Rock at the lake (but be careful of areas of soft sand).

And, depending on time of year, there is a great boat tour up into Antelope Canyon where the walls are 100's of feet vertical and barely wider than the boat.

There is a nice place to camp at Wahweap, a couple miles out of Page.

Harleybullet wrote:
Can you get there by TC and how are the roads out of Page AZ...are the trailheads far from the slots

The only vehicles I've ever seen out there belong to the tribe, tour vehicles. It is a way out there. But well worth the tour price to get out there and see the slots.