This double arch is spectacular. Notice the people crawling around underneath it. There were so many it was impossible to get a photo without people. At least they provide scale. You could practically drive right up to this one, only a short walk from the parking.
Another one in The Windows area of Arches.
Just some random rocks we passed on the way to somewhere else. The formation in the back is called The Tower of Babel. The closer one is Courthouse Towers.
This is the ground we walked on. Had to show at least one shot of that so you can see how many thin layers of rock are in many places all over the park.
A couple of shots of good old Balanced Rock, the second most famous sight in the park.
It does look like a good push could knock it over, but it's managed to withstand ever storm for the last few thousand years, so maybe not that fragile.
This is another view of Courthouse Towers, with The Organ in the background. This was the view from the farthest extent of the Park Avenue hike. Park Avenue is the first hike you pass on the way into the park. Really quick and easy hike we did the afternoon we arrived.
This is a view of the whole Park Avenue hike valley. I imagine the monstrous vertical slabs on the right give the hike its name, like a row of skyscrapers in Manhattan.
I couldn't resist adding another sunset shot for the last photo from Arches. This was taken a few minutes apart from the other one on the previous post. I just love all the tones and colors. Some of those clouds a hundred miles away are still brightly lit.
That's all for Arches National Park. When you have time, please take a look at my next post, on The Needles and Island in the Sky sections of Canyonlands National Park, also close to Moab, Utah.
If you liked this one, you may also enjoy my first set of photos from Arches National Park also.
Two more from this one-week trip to national parks in the vicinity of Moab, Utah.
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