Arches National Park

Moab, Utah

September 27, 2016

Arches National Park is one of the most popular national parks.  It has a rugged desert beauty.  One can discover a landscape of contrasting colors, landforms and textures unlike any other in the world. The park has over 2,000 natural stone arches, in addition to hundreds of soaring pinnacles, massive fins and giant balanced rocks. This red rock wonderland amazes me with its formations, refreshes me with its trails, and inspires me with its sunsets.

My first stop is always Park Avenue with it’s amazing canyon walls.

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One of the unnamed massive spires rising over Park Avenue.

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The impressive Court House Towers

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A view from the Court House Wash into Park Avenue as the evening light darkens with storm clouds.

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Waiting for the cottonwood trees to turn yellow below the Tower of Babel as the sun sinks in the west.

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One last image taken in Castle Valley of Parriott Mesa with a twisted old cottonwood tree.

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