arches national park, page three
During the summer of 2001, Rachelle and I took a vacation to visit National Parks and Monuments in Utah and Arizona. After we visited Zion National Park, we drove to Moab, UT and the next day we visited Arches National Park.
Arches National Park contains the greatest concentration of natural arches in the world, numbering more than 2000 in total. We only had one day to spend at the park, so we could only see a small fraction of these arches. We concentrated on some of the most famous ones. The landscape at Arches is composed of an array of arches, balanced rocks, pinnacles, spires and slick rock domes formed primarily from red sandstone.
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Fiery Furnace
Fiery Furnace
Fiery Furnace
Scenery at Fiery Furnace
Rachelle and I at Fiery Furnace
The Windows Section
Rachelle posing by North Window
South Window
Both North and South Windows
Turret Arch
Scenery at the Windows Section
Scenery at the Windows Section
After we left the park we spent some time in Moab, and then drove to Chinle, AZ later that evening. The next day we visited Canyon de Chelly National Monument.