04/10/2025
Utah 1-week Itinerary🏜️
Day 1: Drive from Salt Lake City to Hanksville (4 hours drive) Visit factory butte and sunset at moonscape overlook. It’s an out worldly like Moon and Mars. Best places to stay? Hanksville, UT.
Day 2: Drive to the temple of the Sun and Moon for sunrise and do the Cathedral Valley Loop. Next stop Sunset at Mars Desert Research Station to see the Bentonite hills. Go before sunset and stay after it sets to see the colors change.
Day 3: See the Long D**g Silver (Lone spire).
Leave for Capital Reef National Park. Do Cassidy Arch Hike 3hrs hike (3.1 miles). Other great hikes include Chimney Rock, Hickman Natural Bridge, Cohab Canyon and Sulphur Creek Waterfalls. If you are not into hiking, there are plenty drive to viewpoints like Panorama Point, Sunset Point, The Fluted Wall, and Slickrock Divide. Stargaze at night if the weather permits.
Day 4: Drive to Peek-a-boo and spooky slot canyons. Enjoy the bizarre rock formation and walk through the slot canyons. Check the weather and road conditions. Next stop Grand Staircase Escalante-hike the Lower Calf Creek Falls (6 miles | easy | 3 hours). Stay in Escalante.
Day 5: Leave for Zion National Park. DO Court of Patriarchs (0.2 miles), Lower/Upper Emeralds Pool and narrows hike (0.6/1.5 miles | 1-1.5 hrs - a very different water hike).
Day 6: Leave for Springville and do the Fifth Water Hot Springs hike - 3 hours drive. Hidden hot springs in the midst of Utah. Drive back to Salt Lake City and stay here.
Day 7: Leave for Bonneville Salt Flats early before sunrise (1.5-hour drive). Next stop Stansbury Island and Near Spiral Jetty to see the reddest lake present.
I put together this 1-week of Utah itinerary to help you plan an epic road trip! If you aren’t coming with your own car, book a high clearance rental car. It’s not needed everywhere but it’s good to have one. This is perfect for travelers who want to see as much as possible in 1 week.
Drop a comment if you want detailed “coordinates” of places in Hansville🗺️. Google maps can be tricky.
Comment “Hotels” if you want stay recommendations and ill DM it to you🏨
