2 miles of hiking • 250' elevation gain •
Went there with my family on the same day I did Corona Arch. Even though Fiery Furnace is very easy as a hike, it was one of the most entertaining hikes I ever did. They advise to do it for the first time in a ranger-led tour, and now it makes sense. First-time hikers doing it alone would wander aimlessly and miss most of interesting features. Most of the time our group went off-trail, in deep and narrow slot canyons; we crawled under/through small arches and over cracks you wouldn't guess it's even doable by a human being, jumped over deep slots, went over ledges - it was fun from the beginning to the end. The rumblings of thunder (we only got rained upon in the last 5 minutes on the hike) echoed off the walls from time to time, adding to the feeling of being at Fiery Furnace. This trip makes me want to go there again and see all the side canyons we went by.
