The Arches National park is in the Eastern Utah. Visiting here was a little bit of a challenge for me. If you took a flight to Grand Junction Regional Airport, you still have to drive about 115 miles to the park. It is between Las Vegas and Denver. This area is very dry and barren land. There were not many gas stations or food places along the way. However you won’t be alone on the road as it is pretty highly trafficked depending on the time of the year you travel. All that trouble is worth it.
This is where you could see most of the natural arches in the world. The unique formation of these rocks are amazing thing to see. There are painters doing sketches and photographers taking endless pictures. As hot as this place is, under the arches it was nice and cool with the breeze. We were able to climb on to some of them.
As remote as this place is, it receives nearly two million visitors each year. We visited in July and it was not crowded at all.
How these rocks sits on each other is unreal and the angle it sits is hard to believe. Some of these arches are so thin that you wonder if they are going to break.
There are many hiking trails here if you are into hiking. These trails vary from half a mile to seven, eight miles. There are regularly hiked trails and primitive unmarked trails too.
There is a campground and an amphitheater available in the park. The campgrounds is pretty far from the entrance. There are so many named arches. Landscape arch, Wall arch, Tunnel arch, Pine tree arch to name a few.
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The sandstone formation of these arches are created by erosions and weather phenomenon's. They will continue change in the years to come. The time you go there may be other changes.
Some rocks just sits on others and one wonders if they will ever fall off.
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