Arches National Park contains the world’s largest concentration of natural stone arches. This park is a red, arid desert, punctuated with oddly eroded sandstone forms such as fins, pinnacles, spires, balanced rocks and arches. The 73,000 acre region has over 2000 of these ‘miracles of nature’.
Continuing on for more punishment, we went hiking again but this time started at 6 AM when it was a little cooler. It was a good thing because when we were heading back to the campground around noon we could see that the parking lots near the closer arches were completely packed with people double parked and even parked on the shoulder for half a mile along the internal road, making it difficult for other cars to get by. The distant cluster of arches had 15 mile hikes associated with them to get to the arches so I imagine that in this heat there were fewer people out there (mid 40* C again).
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| At Double Arch |
(If you want to see a larger version of the pictures just clik on the image. Look carefully as five of the images have people in them. Sorry if the photos aren't in a balanced order; a learning problem!)
I've spent a fair amount of time in this area but you've been to places I've never seen. I'm enjoying your posts and your photos are wonderful.
ReplyDeletePatricia McCairen