Gosh where to begin. It would help to know your interest, where you have been and how serious you like to explore. If you have been to Natural Bridges did you go over Hwy261(Moki Dugway switchbacks) and see Goosenecks State Park. There is I believe a trail down to the San Juan River as well as to some ruins in the area. At the top of the switchbacks is Muley Point road to the right, you can camp right on the several thousand foot ledge with the goosenecks of the San Juan below and get an aerial view of Monument Valley in the distance. All BLM and free camping. On up the road 20 miles or so towards Hwy95 is the Kane Gulch Ranger Station (stop to see if anyone is there even in the parking lot) on the right. From that parking lot there are several trails, really the triangle formed by the San Juan River, Hwy 261 and Hwy 276 to Halls Crossing contains over 2,000 ancient villages and sites known as Grand Gulch. People spend their whole lives trying to see them all. A few miles up the road you will turn left onto Hwy 95 and go past Natural Bridges and the Cheesebox formation on the left you will come to Fry Canyon which before it closed 20 or so years ago was a lodge for explorers and hikers. There is a historical marker for two graves that Cass Hite dug on his way to find the leader of the Navajos in the 1800’s for whom Hite is named. Read up on him as he was something. Son of the South, first cousin of Frank and Jessie James, and one of the few whites to be honored by the Navajos (they actually got him pardoned from a life in prison sentence by going on the war path). Next is Jacobs Chair formation. Again all of this is BLM land with the mining company now occupying the old lodge and one man at the Happy Jack Mine property the only human beings in that stretch till you get to Hite where there may not be anybody till next summer. So 100 miles across and many miles up the road there are no permanent residents, buildings or services, mostly BLM land open range. Hite is developed and has fuel(US zip code credit card) as well as water, trash, restrooms and showers but there maybe no one there. You will cross the Colorado River on a suspension bridge just past Hite, be sure to stop at the top at the overlook. There is a dumpster there as well. Just as you see the Hog Springs sign look left and you will see a big alcove, there is a crack to the left and a red rectangle near it. Park and cross the creek as there are several pictographs and petroglyphs off the trail on the other side of the creek that are not marked. If you saw the slot canyons where the guy got stuck and had to cut off body parts off at the movies. The area called the Irish Canyons is on the right just past Hog Springs trail head. Many levels of trails, you can search the internet for literature on them. Also just before MM 27 I believe (one mile back from Hwy 276 turnoff to Bullfrog) on the right is a hunting scene (pictograph) over 1200 years old that is very faint. There are several trails as you head to Bullfrog and a gas station/marina/lodge before you get to the Burr Trail turn off but three miles straight down Hwy 276 is the park and Bullfrog which is developed and mostly open year round. There is a medical clinic that is open Fridays in the winter as well. Most of Lake Powell is monitored on channel 16 for NPS emergencies and the dispatch for the NPS is (928) 608-6301 but you won’t have cell service anywhere except in the Bullfrog proper and some spotty service in the Henry Mountains on the right as you come in Hwy 276. The fee booth at Bullfrog is maned Thursday thru Sunday daytime by my wife and she can contact me if you need anything or PM me. We can get you a mile by mile description of the Burr Trail.
