While there are no roads that drive straight through Grand Staircase Escalante, you can drive around the border then use unpaved roads to reach trailheads that lead deeper into the national monument. Since the area is protected, there will most likely never be a road cutting through it. If you want to drive along the borders of Grand Staircase Escalante, you can take Scenic Byway 12 (which spans 120 miles of the area), which comes from the northern edge of the region before skirting westward. If you are coming from the south, Highway 89 does move through the bottom portion of the national monument for several miles.