Sam Pollock Canyon

Sam Pollock Canyon is a major side canyon entering the Hackberry drainage in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, near Cannonville. It's named for Sam Pollock, a former Garfield County Commissioner who grazed cattle in the area. Most visitors treat it as a roughly 3-mile out-and-back into the canyon.

What's there

• Narrowing canyon walls typical of the Hackberry/Paria drainage system
• Sam Pollock Arch lies farther up-canyon, but the dryfall bypass route that once reached it was destroyed by rockfall around 2016 and is now considered extremely dangerous
• No maintained tread - this is wash-bottom and route-finding hiking, not a built trail

Plan this as a canyon walk into Hackberry country rather than an arch-viewing hike - the arch itself is effectively off the table for anyone without serious canyoneering experience and current local knowledge of the route.