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Trip Report: After Dark at Arches National Park

Description: Arches National Park invites the artist, historian, and road tripper into sandstone, massive gardens, and geological improbabilities. North of Moab, Utah, shouldered by the Colorado River and home to more than 2,000 natural sandstone arches. Insatiable features like Devils Garden, Landscape Arch spans 480 feet, long and thin, Delicate Arch, inviting the gateway to the Wild West. Trails, towers, buttes, caverns, canyons, and vast beauty away.

Length: One to many days

The rewards: Very few roads with endless trails leading to lost places on the edges. Winter and Spring are my favorite seasons to visit Arches NP. Here’s a full list of must see arches and accessibility.

Favorite memory: Father-daughter pairs, we hiked in at dusk as hikers departed. Our microadventure, Delicate Arch by headlamp under a full moon. Arches National Park is a International Dark Sky park, galaxies visible without light pollution.

Season: Spring, Fall, Winter

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Being in spaces enormous enough to make you dizzy looking up. Arches National Park contains scale photographs cannot accurately retell.
Delicate Arch at sunset waiting out the moon’s arrival.
Thanks Idletheorybus Instagram feed for this inspirational night time shot of Delicate Arch
Indian Jones and the Last Crusade filmed here in 1989 as the young Indiana Jones espaces with treasure reclaimed from thieves.
The Fisher Towers, outside of Arches National Park, infamous desert rat rock climbing bucket list.
Leaving the car behind, with a pack full of water, and a curious mind will yield endless arches discoveries.
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Aaron McHugh is an executive transformation coach, enterprise agility consultant, writer, podcaster, adventurer, and author of Fire Your Boss: Discover Work You Love Without Quitting Your Job.

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