Escalante river, flash flood, Oct 22-2026

[Titans]

We had a ton of rain in Escalante since Tuesday evening. Torrential rain many times.
Unsurprisingly it looks like the river flashed, including 1/2 hr ago.

Rick just squeezed a run in and took this photo (an hour ago) - from Posey Lake rd crossing the Escalante river:

 

[Titans]

We drove down to the Escalante river TH area, about an hour ago, and whoa!
Wall to wall with water, lots of debris, high flow, entire logs floating by:

















30 day gage data


1yr gage data

 

[John Morrow]

Holy cow that's incredible!

 

[Titans]

Holy cow that's incredible!

Yes, surreal to watch! And it looked exactly like this end of September too, I heard from a local (and saw a similar movie). So it happened twice in the last month. Wild….

 

[Janice]

I cannot believe how much water was there. But the cottonwoods look spectacular!