Epic Summer Adventure: Arches National Park

We camped right next to the Colorado river when we visited Arches/Island in the Sky Canyonlands.

This was my favorite place that we camped.
The river was so high, several camping areas were closed below us.

Welcome to Arches. We spent a few hours in an afternoon and a day here!
June 15 & 16

On the afternoon of the 15th we did several of the small trails!
Balanced Rock

Balance Rock - Easy 0.3 miles

Double Arch

Double Arch Trail - easy 0.5 miles

Windows

Windows Loop - Easy 1 mile

North Window

South Window

Turret Arch

Views of the Fiery Furnace

Sand Dune Arch

Sand Dune Arch Trail - Easy (unless you count the sand, meh) 0.3 mile

The clouds were doing interesting things.

Broken Arch

Broken Arch Trail - easy 1.3 mile

Skyline arch

Trail - moderate .4 mile

sunset view

Day's end in Arches was 3.8 miles

June 16th we hiked the Devils Garden Primitive Trail and Delicate Arch!
This trail included several different arches to see!

Devils' Garden via Primitive Loop - Difficult terrain 7.2 miles walk through fins!

Tunnel Arch

Pine Tree Arch

Landscape Arch

Hiking through and up fins!

Partition Arch

Navajo Arch

Double O Arch

Dark Angel

Private Arch

Trail

Can you see the small people?

Delicate Arch was a fun hike. You don't see the arch until you come around a rock and it is magnificent as it appears!

Delicate Arch Trail - Difficult 3 miles 480 foot elevation gain.

Delicate Arch

It was super windy as you can see by my hair! SUPER windy!

Ancient Drawings

At Days end 10.2 miles

Total Arches Hike: 14 miles

14 miles per park seems to be about average. How funny :)