The Navajo name for Upper Antelope Canyon is Tse' bighanilini, which means "the place where water runs through rocks." Upper Antelope is at about 4,000 feet elevation and the canyon walls rise 120 feet above the streambed.
Antelope Canyon is the most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest. Located on Navajo land near Page, Arizona, Antelope Canyon includes two separate, photogenic slot canyon sections, referred to individually as Upper Antelope Canyon or "The Crack" and Lower Antelope Canyon or "The Corkscrew".