The world-famous slots bearing this name have upper and lower sections. Those quiet days are a distant memory now for the Antelope Canyon twins, but you can still savor the sound of silence in other great slots around Page.Īntelope Canyon is the name you’ve heard, but in reality, it’s a long, wide watershed of sand and multiple slots running south to north into Lake Powell. This hidden chasm later became known as Lower Antelope Canyon, which still has the best combination of perfectly fluted sandstone shapes, cool depths and interior 'rooms,' and back then, silence befitting a cathedral.
A Navajo gentleman guided us to a dark sliver in the sandstone a few miles southwest of town, pointed down, and left us to explore. My first visit to a slot canyon was in 1986, when a friend and I came across a postcard in Page and inquired where the corkscrew canyon might be.
