Miles Travelled: 2,682
Current Location: Moab, UT
You can't make this up. Today we drove to Moab, Utah to visit Arches National Park. Moab is in the desert yet it has rained the entire time we have been here. We had to go to several campgrounds before we found one with a vacancy. Around 4:30 PM we got our tent set up and headed to the park.
Arches is a series of geological formations formed over time by wind, water, erosion, etc. You might not know the park by name but you have definitely seen pictures at on time or another. This is one of the more famous arches called Landmark Arch, which at 290 feet is the longest stone arch in the world.
We drove into the deepest part of the park and did a 6.3 mile hike of an area known as Devil's Playground. We visited several different arches on this hike but the quality of the pictures was limited by the rain and overcast skies. Here is one of LD at Partition Arch.
We rushed through the last part of the trail because it was getting dark and as we got back to the car it started really pouring. Obviously the weather was a downer but it did yield some spectacular views of the sunset.
We walked to dinner in the pouring rain and had buffalo meat loaf and ribs. The rain finally stopped by the time we went to bed. Our waitress told us about a cool place called Corona Arch which is not in the park so that is where we are going to start our day tomorrow.
Click here for the full Arches Day 1 photo album
