Delicate Arch.
Arches is cool. It’s remarkable that so many astonishing geographic formations are clustered in a relatively small area.
This is the backside of what is known as Park Avenue.
I liked this cartoon family on a van from Arizona.
Balanced Rock, which looks smaller in this photo than it actually is.
They were thoughtful enough to provide a camera post, “for when you need a helping hand – Arches NP”.
Double Arch.
On the way to Sand Arch.
Sand Arch.
The side of Sand Arch.
Leaving Sand Arch. This area was nice because it was shaded and cool and had some nice greenery next to the pink rocks.
Part of the three-mile-round-trip hike to Delicate Arch is marked by these rock piles, since the trail meanders up bare sandstone.
Toward the end of the hike to Delicate Arch.
A viewport has eroded out of the rock near the end of the hike, making a perfect frame if you are willing to scramble a few feet up the rock.
Delicate Arch! There is a nice natural amphitheater where visitors can sit and enjoy the epic view.
This is what is on the Utah license plates. It was difficult to get a photo without selfie-takers in it, but if you are patient you’ll get the shot.
On the way out of Arches, we stopped for Jeep glamour shots in the fading light. (My goal was to get a shot of the Jeep in Moab, but the shot I got was in a gravel parking lot, and it looks like it could be in an industrial part of anywhere, so this shot will have to do.)
Bye-bye to Arches.
Back in Moab, we wandered town looking for vegan food, and we were rewarded beyond our wildest imaginings by the Peace Tree Cafe. The cashier was vegan, too, and took good care of us. And the food was amazing. We got the quinoa veggie burger, the Thai salad, and the sweet and salty beet salad.
Driving into Arches, and observing an Arches bunny.