Arches National Park

Delicate Arch is on the Utah license plate.
Double Arch

Atop a Rock Fin
Landscape Arch is the largest in the park at 306'. A 180 ton section fell from it in 1991.
Balance Rock
Leaping Toad
Lizard
Squirrel drinking at a pothole.
Blooming Desert

We spent a couple days hiking in Arches National Park where there are over 2000 arches within the park from a minimum of three feet to over 300 feet. This concentration of arches is the result of the different geology of the area which once had huge salt deposits that dissolved causing the land above to collapse creating rock fins. The make up of the stone in the fins causes the lower layers to erode before the upper layers which creates an arch. In Geological time they do not last very long, only a few thousand years and new arches continue to form today even as old ones collapse. We have also seen many more flowers and animals than we thought we would in this dry hot climate.