Pictures of Arches and Canyonlands
These are all scanned photos of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks from our trip to western parks in 2002.
Mesa arch is at Canyonlands, located near Arches and Moab, UT. Here you can
see some of the Canyonlands landscape framed by the arch.
Delicate arch, with some people kindly providing scale. I have pictures with
and without people, but if you haven't seen it in person it's nice to get some
idea just how big these features are. Not really knowing what to expect I didn't
lug my tripod (it's a hike to get there) so I didn't try for the cliche sunset
shot.
This is Landscape Arch. It's 306 feet across. You used to be able to get right
under it, and then a 70 foot long chunk fell off and that part of the path is
closed now.
Double-O Arch. I wasn't really sure why they named it that since I hadn't seen
a photo before hiking out to see it. When we finally saw it, it was like a little
lightbulb went over my head.
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Exploring Canyonlands and Arches National ParksFalcon guides are usually pretty good, and sure enough this got the job done. It has a variety of hikes with nice descriptions and things like little graphs that show you what the elevation gain is really like. It's not critical to have a guide at Arches, but a lot of the arches involve at least a short hike and it's nice to have some idea of what you're getting into before you head out in the desert heat! |
See the rest of Western US Parks 2002 - Grand Canyon - Petrified Forest - Mesa Verde - Arches - Yellowstone (critters) - Yellowstone (geothermal) - Yellowstone (Views)
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