The Great Wall
Baby Arch
Looking down on Arches Visitor Center and the winding road to the top!
Park Avenue
Queen Nefertiti
Rock shelf
This rock formation on Park Avenue looks like it could have come from Easter Island!
While we were on Park Avenue, we looked up and these boys were exploring the crack in the rocks! It gives you some idea of the size of these amazing monoliths!
Courthouse Towers
Three Gossips
Sheep Rock
Tower of Babel and The Organ
Prince's Plume
Courthouse Wash
Petrified Dunes
Water and ice, extreme temperatures, and underground salt movement are responsible for the sculptured rock scenery of Arches National Park. Over 2,000 catalogued arches range in size from a 3-foot opening, the minimum considered an arch, to the longest, Landscape Arch, measuring 306 feet base to base.
La Sal Mountains
Balanced Rock
Top of Balanced Rock
Globemallow
Ham Rock - can you find the ham?
Ham Rock
Prickly Pear Cactus
Turret Arch
Cove Arch
Parade of Elephants
Double Arch
Yellow Cryptanth (Borage)
Dune Evening Primrose
Fiery Furnace Viewpoint
Garden of Eden
Badlands Mule Ears
Delicate Arch - this is the arch seen on Utah license plates.
Wolfe Ranch - disabled Civil War veteran John Wesley Wolfe and his son, Fred, settled here in the late 1800s. A weathered log cabin, root cellar, and corral give evidence of the primitive ranch they operated for over 20 years.
Sandstone Fins
Broken Arch
Skyline Arch
Devil's Garden
Prickly Pear Cactus
Red cliffs near Devil's Garden Campground.
Skyline Arch
Sandstone fins
Prince's Plume
Skyline Arch
Dry creek wash becomes the road in the Salt Valley.
Dune Evening Primrose covers this hillside.
Up-close view of Dune Evening Primrose
Globemallow
Salt Valley Road
Look around... on this remote unpaved road we got a flat on the pick-up! Scott had it changed before another vehicle came down the road!
Wild Purple Aster
Hillside of Prince's Plume.
Cryptobiotic Crust is a mixture of bacteria, mosses, algae, lichens, and fungi. This remarkable plant community holds the desert sands together, absorbs moisture, produces nutrients, and provides seedbeds for other plants to grow. This crust is so fragile that one footprint can wipe out years of growth!
Salt Valley
Wild Heliotrope
Another looks at the fins later in the day when the shadows created "holes" in the sandstone.
This is a great example of the red Entrada Sandstone and the buff-colored Navajo Sandstone.
More sandstone fins...
Yellow Cryptanth
Entrada Sandstone monolith
We think this monolith looks like it's built with Legos - La Sal Mountains are visible in the background.
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