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2014 Map of Red Breaks

Name: 2014 Topographic Map of Red Breaks
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2014
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2014

About this map

The Escalante River winds through this section of Garfield County, marking a landscape defined by dramatic geological formations and deep canyons. Protected lands dominate the area, which includes the North Escalante Canyon Outstanding Natural Area and a significant portion of the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. These designations reflect the area's importance as a preserved wilderness, where the natural drainage patterns of Death Hollow and Harris Wash converge toward the river corridor.

Remote benches and flats, such as Big Spencer Flats, Brigham Tea Bench, and King Bench, provide a sense of the vast, high-desert topography. Human impact is minimal, represented primarily by the Old Sheffield Rd and a few named points like Allen Dump. For the researcher, this map provides the exact topography of the namesake Red Breaks and the intricate network of canyons that have shaped the transit and grazing history of this part of southern Utah.