Little Wild Horse Canyon runs over 3 miles through the Crack Canyon Wilderness Study Area and joins Bell Canyon to form one of Utah's most popular slot canyon hikes. Visitors will enjoy some of the country's narrowest slot canyons, remote deserts and wildlife that includes pronghorn and bighorn sheep.

Bell Canyon's slots are not as tall or narrow, but equally compelling for there interesting texture

Ripples in the rock support theories that this area once lay on the edge of a massive inland sea

The San Rafael Swell is a 75 mile long, 30 mile wide wrinkle in the earth's crust called an anticline

Sections of Little Wild Horse only allow one foot in front at a time

Upper Bell Canyon is topped with domes and lined with slickrock walls that narrow into slots as you progress

The trail loses clarity in the upper canyon, where it forks northwest to reach Bell Canyon

The geologic history of the San Rafael Swell area began 40 to 60 million years ago when a massive uplift formed a geologic anticline

Though the San Rafael Swell supports over 200 bighorn sheep, you're more likely to see lizards

Crowds build quickly in the slots, where making room for others can be a challenge

Open desert along Behind the Reef Road offers expansive views of the western swell

Tight fins require nimble feet in Little Wild Horse Canyon

Enter the slot canyons through this narrow crease in the rock

Large atrium between the second and third slot