28. Arches National Park, Utah

Arches and Canyonlands  National Parks Photo Album

The plan today was to sleep in as long as possible, eat breakfast and then head to Arches National
Park. The steady pace of sightseeing, hiking and driving has taken its toll lately and we've been feeling a little worn out. It's hard to slow down when there's so much to see! A good shower before bed and a good night's sleep had us feeling more positive and ready for a good day.














On the way to Arches we saw Canyonlands National Park. so we thought we'd finish our first afternoon in Moab at Canyonlands and the next day would be reserved for Arches.
As usual we visited the visitor's center watched the video on the geological history of the park then decided to drive to the view points as per usual. I hate to say this but I did caughtmyself saying " meh.....I've seen better"  ...which is true....but completely unfair to this park. Perhaps we were getting jaded at the parks...perhaps we were getting a little tired....nonetheless, this park should been pretty good too....the views were also very spectacular....but when you sandwich it between Bryce and Arches......it didn't stand a chance.....so i'm gonna apologize to Canyonlands National Park and say that it was worth the trip.





 Arches National Park is five miles north of Moab and is renowned for it's 2000+ rock arch formations. We drove in to the deepest part of the park and started to explore. We hiked into a few of the view points, rock climbed and met more wonderful people (from France.)

Delicate Arch

This park is similar to Sequoia and Zion in that you drive to the viewpoints in a huge park , although Arches doesn't have a shuttle service.  We hiked to several arches and rock hopped..... but the heat was intense..so kept our hikes short and drank a lot of water.... I really don't think we drank enough water cuz we were fading...fast...!!! So we took our time....and finished the park later than we expected, around 5:30 ish) .....oh well.....

windows arch

we wanted to go biking as well but we put the kibosh on that ...there was no way we had any energy to bike in that heat....it was well over 100 Fahrenheit!!! ....Instead we decided to go back to camp ...do some laundry....update blog....and ....oh yeah ...I also cut peter's hair too....he feels like a new man...

So now we can say that we are finished our canyon visits and heading eastward towards our beautiful  home....i'm startng to get excited ...I miss my family and friends...and DJANGOOOOOO











This park offered some extraordinary views of rock

formations which we enjoyed tremendously...we definitely recommend this to ya'll.......and NOW we are officially heading Home....Denver.....then Kansas....Indianna...who knows which route we'll take....thank you all for joining us on our EPIC JOURNEY..... we had a blast....

love always
Mary and Peter