Arches National Park, Utah

July 2025

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This park is right outside Moab town which has a wide range of hotels and RV parks. The scenic drive inside the park is about 18mile along. We had one single day to explore this park, and we had to pick and choose the spots we were visiting.

Below are the stops we made. I would have loved to do 2 other hikes if I had another day (landscape arch and Delicate arch)

  • Park avenue
  • Courthouse towers
  • Balanced rock
  • Garden of Eden
  • North and South window arches
  • Turret Arch
  • Double arch, my favorite of the lot
  • Skyline arch
  • Sand Dune arch
  • Delicate arch viewpoint (this is a viewpoint and not the hike to the arch itself)

The Drive to Park Avenue

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Park Avenue

Park avenue offers a majestic, spectacular view of the giant mountains. There is a great trail there but we sticked to the view point this time, trying to cover as many view points and arches in a single day.

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Courthouse Towers

Fallen Arch

Balanced Rock

Its a quick short walk around the balanced rock

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Garden of Eden

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Short video of Park Avenue, courthouse towers, balanced rock and bit of drive

North and South window arches

A short walk to the north window arch. Take the trail to go behind the north window arch to see both arches together

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North Window Arch
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Short video of North and South window arches

Turret Arch

This one is a short walk opposite to the north window arch.

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North window arch seen through turret arch

Double arch

This was my favorite arch among the ones we were able to visit in a day. Its a short walk from the window arches

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My Arch Conqueror
The view from inside the arch
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The view from inside the arch

Skyline arch

Just saw it from the viewpoint due to lack of time and didn’t attempt to climb to the arch

Broken Arch

Viewed from far. There is an easy walk path to reach the arch.

Sand Dune arch

The path to this arch is full of soft sand like in a beach. Sand is formed from the erosion of these sandstone rock formations.

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Short video of Sand dune arch

Delicate arch view point

One of the most iconic hike and arch in this national park is delicate arch. We didn’t have time to do this hike but found a shorter hike to a viewpoint of delicate arch. The surrounding mountains in this area have greenish blue rock and it comes from the Jurassic past where the iron from volcano mixed with sediments in the river that gave this unique color. There also seems to be white rocks (maybe quartz) in these mountains.

Green rocks and sand

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Few misc pics from the drive in the park

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Moab Town

And our cute little cabin in Red desert RV park

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