Name: East Rim Trail
Rating: 4.5

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Land Manager: Dead Horse Point State Park

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4.5 from 21 votes

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4.5 from 21 votes

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Mar 13, 2025 near Moab, UT

May 5, 2015 near Moab, UT

Sep 7, 2017 near Moab, UT

Shafer Basin evaporation ponds and snow covered La Sal Mountains from Dead Horse Point Overlook

Mar 17, 2020 near Moab, UT

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Mar 13, 2025

Stewart Carnes

Apr 3, 2024

Ashleigh Shunk

Apr 2, 2024

J Rai

did the easy 1.1 mile East and West Rim Loop

Mar 3, 2023

Stewart Carnes

Sep 22, 2022

Randy Turner

Jun 29, 2022

Kristelyn Kalchthaler

Sep 3, 2021

Brett Wolfley

Jul 20, 2021

Erik Lillestol

Jul 12, 2021

Kenny Martin

Apr 18, 2021

Jamie Pospishil

Jun 21, 2020

Tyson Harty

Sunset view at Dead Horse Point

May 16, 2020

Nona Tor

Mar 6, 2020

Jason David

Aug 12, 2019

Jared Stewart

Jun 14, 2019

Lynette Cornell

Trail is well marked. Start at the visitor center and follow the obvious path and cairns. If short on time, opt for out and back of east rim. We di…

Apr 24, 2019

Carolyn Jungels

5mi

Apr 12, 2019

Tilman Giese

Mar 29, 2019

Patrick Csongei

this trail description/map is wildly inaccurate. excellent hike though once we found the actual trail 5.8mi — 2h 15m

Mar 25, 2019

Ryan S

Mar 13, 2019

Kaleb Kleiss Hoeft

1.2mi — 1h 00m

Oct 23, 2018

Katie Q

Super cloudy when we went :( couldn't see anything so that's definitely something to consider. Other than that the trail was great! 1.5mi

Sep 19, 2018

Carine Istas

Sep 11, 2018

Ryan M

Sep 9, 2018

Jeff Harper

Sep 3, 2018

Robyn Hanna

Jul 25, 2018

dee angel

Jul 3, 2018

Tracey Ziniel

Jun 25, 2018

Mike Langenkamp

1mi

Jun 14, 2018

Stephanie Adams

Jun 11, 2018

Benoit Vanier

4.3mi — 3h 00m

May 28, 2018

Amanda Norton

didn't hike much. just drove to view point

Apr 19, 2018

Sydney Drake

Campo trip with Bieke

Apr 15, 2018

Adam Lief

2mi

Apr 14, 2018

Ryan William

Epic hike! Pretty easy hiking. We were pretty much all alone on the west rim trail till you meet back up with the road. East rim was much busier.

Mar 10, 2018

Ryan Brouwer

Nov 2, 2017

Lea Hairston

Very difficult to follow in many places. I was off trail as much as I was on it.

Sep 7, 2017

Matt Leister

Sep 5, 2017

Chandra Nalluri

Aug 30, 2017

Matt Ferrel

Jun 11, 2017

Sarah Johnson

May 9, 2017

Bo Blake

Kristy and I sunset hike 4mi

Apr 29, 2017

Tyler Kilpatrick

Apr 16, 2017

Anna Lee Walker

Great hike and views! 4mi

Mar 19, 2017

Darren Sq

Aug 19, 2015

Cameron Booth

The trail really just moves you around from viewpoint to viewpoint without being anything interesting in and of itself. But those views!!!

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East Rim Trail

“Dead Horse Point State Park is located high on the rim of the Colorado River Canyon. ”

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321' 98 m

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