• Distance: 4 miles one-way to Park Wash
• Duration: 4–5 hours
• Elevation change: 200 feet
• Effort: easy
• Trailhead: 20 miles south of Cannonville along Skutumpah Road

Twenty miles south of Cannonville, Skutumpah Road crosses Lick Wash, from which trails lead downstream into slot canyons to a remote arroyo (dry river bed) surrounded by rock-topped mesas. One of these lofty perches contains a preserve of now-rare native grasses.

Although this area can be reached on a day hike, this is also a good place to base a multiday camping trip. The trail starts just below the road crossing on Lick Wash and follows the usually dry streambed as it plunges down into a narrow slot canyon. The canyon bottom is mostly level and easy to hike. After one mile, the canyon begins to widen, and after four miles Lick Wash joins Park Wash, a larger desert canyon.

Looming above this canyon junction are mesas topped with deep sandstone terraces that are part of the White Cliffs of the Grand Staircase. Rising to the east is No Mans Mesa, skirted on all sides by steep-sided cliffs. The 1,788 acres atop the mesa were grazed by goats for six months in the 1920s, but before or since then has never been grazed by herbivores.

This pristine grassland is protected by the BLM as an Area of Critical Environmental Concern. Hardy hikers can scramble up a steep trail—used by the aforementioned goats—to visit this wilderness preserve. The ascent of No Mans Mesa is best considered an overnight trip from the Lick Wash trailhead.