The Hayduke Trail

As printed on the site

Fourteen Sections, Fourteen Named Endpoints

The route is fourteen sections. Each section title ends at a named place. The homepage calls the whole line an extremely challenging 800-mile backcountry route through rugged country, entirely on public land, linking six national parks on the Colorado Plateau.

The endpoints below are the ends already shortened in the fourteen-section note, without the miles that note prints beside them. A day can end where one of those ends is a road or a park entrance. The list does not sell a bed at any of them.

Fourteen ends, in walking order

The earlier note shortens each section title to a from-and-to line. The "to" of each line is the endpoint. The order is the route's order, from the Arches side to Zion. Miles are left on that earlier page so this list cannot be mistaken for a new measurement.

  1. Hurrah Pass
  2. Big Spring
  3. Hite
  4. Poison Springs Canyon
  5. The Burr Trail
  6. Hole-in-the-Rock Road
  7. Round Valley Draw
  8. Willis Creek
  9. The stateline trailhead
  10. Nankoweap
  11. Horseshoe Mesa
  12. The North Rim
  13. Hack Canyon
  14. The Weeping Wall

The fourteen-section note is the page that carries these shortened titles with the figures this list omits. The names are the section titles' names. They are not towns added between the titles. Where a name is only a canyon, a pass, or a mesa, it stays that. It does not grow a commercial street in order to look like an endpoint a visitor could book.

Hurrah Pass through the Weeping Wall is a list of ends, not a list of places to buy a night. The fourteen-section note already printed the figures beside these shortened titles. This note only asks which of the ends can close a day.

The ends that are roads

A road in a section title is the honest place a day can end. On this list, the Burr Trail is a real road, not only a trail name, and Hole-in-the-Rock Road is a road by its name. Hite is the named point where the route meets a road and the Glen Canyon shore. Those three are the list's clearest roadside ends.

The backcountry on either side of them is still the homepage's rugged country, entirely on public land. The road does not follow the walker back into that country. The note on Hite and the notes on the Burr Trail and on Escalante country stay with those roads. This page only marks them inside the fourteen, so the other endpoints are not quietly treated as roads too.

Hite, the Burr Trail, and Hole-in-the-Rock Road are singled out because a road is visible in the way the route uses them. Other names on the list might be near a track somewhere in the country. This note will not promote a canyon to a road on a hunch.

The ends that are parks or a rim visitors use

Arches is where the route comes in, at a park entrance, before Hurrah Pass is ever the section end. Zion is where the last title finishes, at the Weeping Wall in Zion National Park. The North Rim is a named rim of the Grand Canyon, a place visitors already go, unlike a canyon with no road in the name. Bryce is a park the route names and then leaves, between Willis Creek and the Kaibab.

A night can exist at those park entrances and at that rim, outside the backcountry. The pages do not name a price or a room at any of them. Capitol Reef meets the Burr Trail, so that park and that road are the same kind of meeting. The six parks on the homepage are the park names. The endpoints are the section ends. They overlap where a section actually finishes at a park or a rim, and nowhere else.

Park entrances and the North Rim are the other honest stops. They are honest because visitors already have a way to be there: a park has an entrance, and the North Rim is a rim people already go to. That is a different fact from a bed being offered. The site never makes the second fact.

The ends that stay backcountry names

Hurrah Pass, Big Spring, Poison Springs Canyon, Round Valley Draw, Willis Creek, the stateline trailhead, Nankoweap, Horseshoe Mesa, and Hack Canyon are names of passes, springs, canyons, draws, creeks, a trailhead, and a canyon. They are real endpoints because the section titles use them. They are not, on these pages, described as towns.

Calling them endpoints does not stock them with businesses. The homepage's sentence still covers the walking between them: extremely challenging, rugged, on public land, across the Colorado Plateau in southern Utah and northern Arizona. A reader who wants a night outside that walking uses the roads and the park entrances, not a canyon that the title left as a canyon.

A pass, a canyon, a draw, a creek, a trailhead, and a mesa can all be real and still be the wrong place to pretend a night has been arranged. Big Spring and Poison Springs Canyon keep the names the section titles use. They are endpoints. They are not, in this note, new water reports, and they are not towns. The 2008 notes remain the only water page, and Willow Spring remains the spring those notes contribute here.

Groupings the earlier notes already made

The fourteen do not have to be memorized as a flat string. The earlier notes already group them: sections from Arches to Hite; Hite across the Henry Mountains, with the figure 11,419 feet; Escalante country to Round Valley Draw; Willis Creek, Bryce, and the Kaibab; and across the canyon to the Weeping Wall. The groups are a reading order. They do not rename the endpoints.

Photo files named Halls_creek2, round_valley_draw2, and indian_creek_petroglyphs sit against that reading order as filenames only. Halls Creek belongs with the Burr Trail section's country. Round Valley Draw is an endpoint in the list. Indian Creek is a name in a filename from the opening country. None of the three files adds an endpoint the titles forgot.

The groupings are a courtesy for a long list. Arches to Hite, the Henry Mountains with 11,419 feet, Escalante country to Round Valley Draw, Willis Creek through Bryce to the Kaibab, and the canyon to the Weeping Wall. The phrases do not delete Hurrah Pass or Hack Canyon. They file them.

What the list is not

The list is not a set of towns the route requires. It is not a set of rates. It is not a water table. Notes dated 2008, including Willow Spring, are the water page, and the note on those water lines says what a spring implies for the next named end. The site points outward to a guidebook, to route corrections, and to water-source status, and it does not carry an official guidebook of its own.

The note on the 800 miles is the homepage's single length for all fourteen. This page does not add the section figures up into a second total. The Haydukers and the organizations on the links page stay on the links page. The endpoints stay geographic. A day ends where a title already named a road or a park entrance, and the site still does not name a bed there.

Not a town list, not a price list, not a sum of separate figures. The homepage already gave 800 miles for the whole. This page gives endpoints. Where the endpoint is a road or a park entrance or the North Rim, a day can end outside the backcountry. Where it is not, the route is still the rugged public land the homepage named.