Escalante Posts:

• Escalante Cemetery
• Escalante DUP Marker
• Escalante Historic District
• Escalante Post Office
• First Public Building
• Head of the Rocks Overlook
• L.D.S. Tithing Office
• Old Boulder Mail Trail

Previously known as Potato and also Spud Valley, Escalante is in Garfield County, Utah. It is named after Silvestre Velez de Escalante, a missionary and the first European explorer in the general area although he never came to this valley.

The first white people here were a group of Mormon cavalry during the Black Hawk Indian War of the mid-1860s.

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