Negro Bill Canyon

Details of a rock wall inside Long Canyon, on Utah's historic Burr Trail. The black streaks are so-called desert varnish.
Nation  |  Clarissa Hamlin

'Negro Bill Canyon' Renamed

Utah's Negro Bill Canyon has a new name, Grandstaff Canyon after the U.S. Board on Geographic Names voted Thursday to rename it following years of debate.

Utah Canyon & desert
Nation  |  A. French

‘Negro Bill’ Canyon Here to Stay, Says Utah Panel

Some have taken offense to the landmark named for William Grandstaff, a Black rancher whose cattle grazed in the Moab city canyon from 1877 to 1881.