Arches National Park is located at Southeast of Utah. It is located close to Canyonlands National Park beside the town of Moab. Arches National Park is known to have unique looking rocks with shape of an arch. Although Arches National Park is not big, it is actually one of the most popular national park in the state of Utah. It has attracted thousands of visitors each year.
We visited Arches National Park right after visiting Canyonlands National Park. On the first day, we went into Arches National Park around noon just to go to the visitor center and grab some maps and information. It was way too hot at noon and thus we went back to hotel to rest first. The temperature were above 100 degrees for sure.
In the late afternoon when the temperature cooled down a bit, we went to Delicate Arch to check out the legendary Delicate Arch. It was still quite hot at 6PM but we wanted to get there before sunset.
The next day morning, we went to Windows Arch first thing in the morning. There were already many cars in the parking lot but we were able to find a parking space luckily. After that, we walked across the parking lot to check out Double Arch.
After Double Arch, it was around 10AM and it was starting to get hot. We figured that we could do one more hike and thus we went to Devils Garden. When we finished the hike, we were already so exhausted and didn't even want to move an inch anymore.
In the afternoon, we visited Garden of Eden view point. The view point has a grand view over the dessert land in Arches National Park. While we were there, we met 2 people who were doing rock climbing on the Owl Rock there. We stayed a bit and checked them out climbing the rock. They were really good at it and were climbing quite fast on the vertical rock.
Overall, Arches National Park was quite amazing. Its unique landscape and the arches rock formation is quite cool, especially the delicate arch.
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