Lower Red Cave Slot Canyon. Like the similarly named red cave and red hollow red canyon forms a colorful series of narrows through the deep red sandstone rock of the glendale bench a few miles east of zion national park although the drainage is a tributary of kanab creek rather than the virgin river. The land east of zion national park and the kolob terrace is generally lower and the mountains less sheer but the cliffs and mesas are made of the same navajo sandstone white at higher elevations and red lower down and these too contain interesting slot canyons though not as deep as the more well known gorges to the west and without streams running through.
Lower red cave walk into the ever constricting canyon to the east. Hike up to the lower fork of red cave entering the slot near the mouth and then hiking cross country dropping into the upper fork of red cave and exiting at the upper fork cave entrance. Three things make antelope canyon x a better choice than both upper and lower antelope canyons.
Upper and lower red caves are two beautiful slot canyons east of zion national park in southwestern utah located just east of mount carmel utah.
Antelope canyon x is going to be the highlight of your trip to page arizona. Lower red cave exit. You can explore each canyon from the bottom to the top and then come back down or you can do a loop hike and combine the two by following the above gps points. Like the similarly named red cave and red hollow red canyon forms a colorful series of narrows through the deep red sandstone rock of the glendale bench a few miles east of zion national park although the drainage is a tributary of kanab creek rather than the virgin river.
