| Escalante Butte | |
| Label: | Escalante.Butte |
| Label Position: | right |
| Elevation Ft: | 6,536 |
| Elevation Ref: | [1] |
| Prominence Ft: | 876 |
| Location: | Grand Canyon Coconino County, Arizona, U.S. |
| Parent Peak: | Navajo Point (South Rim) |
| Map: | USA Arizona#USA |
| Map Size: | 180 |
| Coordinates: | 36.0492°N -111.8498°W |
| Coordinates Ref: | – |
| Topo: | USGS Desert View |
| Age: | Permian down to Cambrian |
| Type: | sedimentary rock |
| Rock: | Coconino Sandstone-(prominence), Hermit Shale, Supai Group-(eroded ridgeline), Redwall Limestone, Muav Limestone, Bright Angel Shale |
Escalante Butte is a 6536feet prominence adjacent the far eastern South Rim of the Grand Canyon, of Northern Arizona. Adjacent east is a lower elevation butte, Cardenas Butte. Both buttes, (and the South Rim), are part of the western drainage of north-trending Tanner Canyon into the Colorado River.
Escalante Butte and Cardenas Butte lie upon the same Supai Group ridgeline. At the west, Escalante is separated by a ridge saddle (the drainage southeast into Upper Tanner Canyon). Escalante Butte prominence is a small, heavily eroded cliff and debris remainder of Coconino Sandstone, (on debris of Hermit Shale), on eroded ridges of the Supai Group. Cardenas Butte, is about lower, east, on an eroded ridgeline of Supai Group. Its small spire is a surviving cliff-former unit of the Supai Group.