Activities and Events

The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (GSENM) science program hosts a lecture series at the Kanab Library (374 N Main Street) that is open to all: Science and Nature Talks in Kanab. Past science lecture presentations can be viewed here

Activity Calendar

April 2025
  • April 12-19, 2025: The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument's Escalante Interagency Visitor Center will host a Junior Ranger Day 2025 on April 19. Activities and new programs will be featured from April 12 through April 19, 2025.
  • April 16, 2025: Utah's bumble bees and how we can help them. By guest speaker, Amy Dolan. This free event is at the Kanab City Library at 6 p.m.
  • April 17, 2025: Community science field training on bumble bee surveying; sign up here.
May 2025 
  • May 8-11, 2025: Join us for a myriad of nature talks during Amazing Earthfest in Kanab, Utah. 
September 2025
  • Sept. 10, 2025: Enigmatic Traces of Sacred Water: Cup and Channel Petroglyphs of the Far West (Michael Terlep)
October 2025
  • Oct. 8, 2025: Bats of GSENM (Jackie Grant)
November 2025
  • Nov. 12, 2025: Native Buckwheat Plants of GSENM (Web Staley and Marc Coles-Ritchie)
December 2025
  • Dec. 9, 2025: Mountain lions in GSENM (Joshua Lisbon)
January 2026
  • Jan. 14, 2026: Trees of GSENM (Marc Coles-Ritchie)

Routinely Offered Programs

Paleontology Week: More information about this program coming soon