Arches National Park, Utah

How beautiful is this?

After visiting Monument Valley, Cathy, Mom, and I traveled north to Arches National Park, just north of Moab, Utah. It was a beautiful sight as we neared Moab, with high, rugged cliffs on our left illuminated from behind by the waning sun. We arrived at Arches a little late in the day and saw as much as we could in about 2 hrs time.

The entrace to the park was spectacular, with incredibly high, sheer rock walls all around. Our favorite place, I think, was an area called Park Avenue, which was a little valley surrounded by tall, sheer rocks all around. I really encourage you to take a look at both of my Arches photo pages, accessed by going to: www.tomsphotosonline.com. Unfortunately, even those photos don't do this place justice. It was really very beautiful.

We drove though the park and saw as much as we could. We didn't have time to see the most famous Arch, called Delicate Arch (although on a second trip through for me, I did see it).

Here is a rock formation called Balanced Rock (oddly enough):

This thing was huge!




This area is known as The Garden of Eden. I thought that the mountains provided quite a nice backdrop.

The following picture is looking south from an area that contains Double Arch:

This formation is called Three Gossips:




A final shot looking at one of the nearby mountains:




I didn't get any good shots of any arches in the park because I was time constrained. However, I did make it back to Arches a few days later after dropping Mom and Cathy off in Salt Lake City, Utah. More to come...