How to visit and what to see in The Wave (Coyote Buttes)

One of the most surprising landscapes that you can see in the area of the Utah and Arizona national parks, during your trip along the west coast of the United States, is known as The Wave (La Ola) in the northern area of the area called Coyote Buttes.

It is not a national park, but a natural area which is accessed with a limited number of visitors per day, and where to get there you have to take a long walk of an hour and a half (and the same on the way back) through a desert area.

Coyote Buttes It is located in the border area between Utah and Arizona, in Paria Canyon, and is accessed by national highway 89, in the section that goes from Kanab a Page, between miles 21 and 22.

How to visit The Wave

At this point it is found a booth in which every day is done a draw among those who have previously requested it so that 10 people can visit it. Added to these are another 10 who have made the reservation months in advance.

To get to the area The Wave You have to travel 5,5 miles on foot, round trip, although you can also take a slightly longer excursion of eight miles to visit some other interesting corners of the area. Coyote Buttes, such as rock arches and areas with dinosaur footprints.

Specifically, The Wave It is an area whose whimsical rock shapes with sands with iron deposits they form a beautiful and spectacular rainbow of pastel yellow, pink and red colors.

I have not had the fortune of visit Coyote Buttes and The Wave, so to know the experience of a traveler who has visited this area, I recommend reading the blog Gure BidaiakWhere Aitor and Oihana They tell us in great detail about their incredible excursion.

“Along with the visit to the karst mountains of Yangshuo, China, this is the most supernatural place we have ever visited”; with this phrase Aitor y ohana They begin the chronicle of their visit to The Wave.

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