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When you enter Arches National Park you cannot help but feel like you are on some other planet, perhaps Mars. It is an amazing spectacle to wander through the arches and other towering rock formations carved from red rock by wind and water over the last 150 million years. This section has been named Park Avenue because it resembles the sky scrapers on the famous New York street.
Balancing Rock. We hoped that this 50 foot boulder would continue to be balanced long enough for us to take this photograph.
Arches National Park has the most natural arches than any other place in the world. There are more than 2000 arches here at this point. As we speak, new arches are being formed and old ones are nearing destruction by the elements. The Southern Arch.
A desert tree helps to remind you that you have not landed on Mars. Instead you are in an amazingly beautiful and massive natural rock freak show gallery situated in the middle of the desert.
The Double Arches against a cloudless, clear blue Spring sky. If you look closely at the person with the blue pants and the white t-shirt just before the shadow of the arch, you will get an idea of the massive size of the two arches.
The freestanding Delicate Arch sits just at the edge of a deep canyon.
Here is the Delicate Arch, everyone's favorite arch, up close.
We very much liked and respected the Landscape Arch which measures 306 feet wide. Landscape Arch has been growing thinner and thinner as the years pass. We do not know if our children will be able to enjoy Landscape Arch when they are finally conceived, born and old enough to visit this beautiful place.
After a wonderful day in Arches, we drove west through Colorado and north up to Cheyenne Wyoming in our quest to see Mt. Rushmore.
Aspen trees are very common up in the mountains of Colorado.
Continue north with us to Wyoming
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