Map of Arches National Park Utah

• Transportation

  Directions to Archways Park

  Automobile

  Drive Hwy 191 toward Moab, in southeastern Utah. The doorway to Archways is situated along that highway, five miles north of Moab.

  Plane

  Commercial air carriers serve Grand Junction, CO and Salt Lake City, UT. Vehicle rental fees and shuttle services can be found in individuals metropolitan areas. By vehicle, these metropolitan areas are roughly 2 and 4 hrs (correspondingly) from the park entrance.

  Bus

  Greyhound travels along Interstate 70, making stops at Grand Junction, CO, and Eco-friendly River, UT. Greyhound also stops in Salt Lake City. From Grand Junction or Salt Lake City, you are able to rent a vehicle or have a shuttle to Archways.

  Train

  Amtrak stops at Grand Junction, CO, Eco-friendly River, UT, and Salt Lake City. Vehicle rental fees and shuttle services can be found from Grand Junction and Salt Lake City.

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  Archways Park

February

38F 17F Climate

1.5" Avg. Precipitation (inches)

17.1" Avg. Snowfall (inches)

Delicate Arch may be the icon, * looping 65 ft from an orange bluff based on its very own invented axes, but each and every hike in Archways will highlight something which changes your point of view: the metaphysics of Landscape Arch a Courthouse along with a Tower of Babel on Park Avenue the lost souls within the Fiery Furnace. It’s all waiting, silently, as an engineering project abandoned as not practical.

Fragility through the ton

It’s Arches’ juxtapositions that prevent you inside your tracks: height and balance coarseness and curvature huge foundations of stone suspended in mid-air. We’re attracted towards the unlikely, and good ventilation is one of the last factor you anticipate from the mountain.

You will find 2Thousand named archways around the block. (A dent within the rock makes a title as well as an “arch” designation by stretching 3 ft one way.) Forty-three are recognized to have fallen since 1977 — a bit more than annually. We’re pleased to are convinced that humans didn’t cause them. (Never be the very first!) Therefore if you’re lucky (or stupid), you can find the photo a person can have (even when it’s your last). Tread gently, speak softly, and please (please!), stay from the cryptobiotic soil — that crusty stuff from the trail that appears like dead moss is really quite alive, thanks, and it is stopping erosion.

Archways Park may be the Holey Land

…for walkers, motorcyclists, motorists and rafters. And photography enthusiasts and jeepers and climbers. And campers. Whatever your outside passion, make room for an additional.

(A number of individuals you cannot do around the block proper, but Moab, where you’ll most likely stay, is centrally situated inside a area with lots of sandstone for everyone. Come for that outside adventure and remain for that spas, pizza and dusty luxury in the future. If you wish to pack light, just rent all of your gear in the outfitters on Primary Street.)

See Archways now, before it will get as common as it must. Outdoors peak seasons still it seems like you will find more sights than vacationers, and it is so beautiful you will not wish to inform your buddies.