Synonyms of gulches

gulches

noun

plural of gulch

as in canyons

a narrow opening between hillsides or mountains that can be used for passage

the gulch floods in the spring with the runoff from the mountains, so wait until later in the summer to hike it

Synonyms & Similar Words

• canyons
• ravines
• gorges
• valleys
• gaps
• saddles
• flumes
• crevices
• passes
• defiles
• cols
• kloofs
• linns
• couloirs
• notches
• abysses
• trenches
• gills
• fissures
• glens
• chasms
• cirques
• crevasses
• clefts
• gulfs
• basins
• gullies
• hollows
• vales
• dales
• gutters
• arroyos
• dells
• coulees
• floodplains
• kettles
• combes
• barrancas
• troughs
• cwms
• wadis
• washes
• nullahs
• draws
• shut-ins

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of gulches

Plastic waste flutters and settles into gulches, catches in the fencing. — Cristina Dorador, The Dial, 14 July 2026

Head right, and there came public land, the Shasta-Trinity National Forest with its creeks and gulches and two-bit towns like Peanut and Beegum. — Literary Hub, 22 June 2026

The road to the potato patches — where the community grows most of its vegetables — crosses several large gulches that frequently spill tons of rock and soil onto the track, requiring regular maintenance. — NPR, 4 Apr. 2026

In the 1910s, Bisbee packed some 35 nationalities onto ledges and into its gulches and streets, with Mexican and Balkan miners among the largest groups, most of them working at Phelps Dodge’s Copper Queen Mine. — Masha Hamilton, Longreads, 19 Feb. 2026