Members of the Dominguez-Escalante expedition had just trekked ... reasonably accurate maps of the region. Additionally, in the Utah Valley they had found an area ideal for Spanish settlement ...

Right inside Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area, just south of Grand Junction, Colorado, lies Big Dominguez Canyon. While hiking this Colorado gem, you'll wander through a wilderness ...

4, 1776 — that an expedition led by Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez and Fray Silvestre Vélez de Escalante camped in ... and to explore and map lands north and west of the Colorado River.

While Miera made the maps and Dominguez was the leader, Escalante has got schools, the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, and a city in Utah named for him. Historians, such as Kessell ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.—Part of a trail in the Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area that collapsed into the Gunnison River is temporarily closed to horseback riders and motor travel.