Photo Friday: Our Moab Adventure Part 1

Last month my wife and I made a trip to Moab, UT to visit Arches N.P. and other sites. We have been planning to go there for years, and it was truly a great trip that we thoroughly enjoyed. We stayed there for seven days, and there was so much to see we could have easily stayed several more days to do more sightseeing. Today I want to share some of the many photos we took of this lovely part of the world.

Arches National Park

Arches N.P. is using a timed entry system to help control visitor’s traffic, and we had several early morning entry passes for our visits. The Moab weather was cool in the mornings, but it quickly warmed up so we were happy to do our hiking early in the day while it was still cool-ish. We visited Arches three days in a row, and saw a lot of beautiful scenery there. The rock formations are amazing, and many are named attractions like the Three Gossips and the Courthouse Towers. The first part of the park includes those two plus the Park Avenue trail and Balanced Rock.

Three Gossips

Courthouse Towers

Park Avenue viewpoint

Balanced Rock

That first day we visited the Windows Section to see Double Arch, which is an amazing formation that was formed by water eroding it from above into two separate arches. There were a few folks climbing up into the arches themselves, but we were content to view from up close and not do any damage to the rocks or ourselves.

Double Arch from distance

Double Arch

We also visited The Windows Section of the park on the second morning, and it includes the Windows arches and the Turret Arch along with the Double Arch and a few other attractions. We did short hikes to see both of those arches. Most of the hikes we did on our trip were from 30 to 60 minutes long, so we could easily do several in a morning before it got hot and we got tired.

the Windows

trail to Turret Arch

Turret Arch

We also visited the much-photographed Delicate Arch that second day as well as the Wolfe Ranch area, which has some well-defined petroplyphs. The Wolfe Ranch was inhabited by homesteaders back in the early 1900s, and it is hard to imagine anyone living in such a desolate area. These glyphs, depicting a hunting scene, were drawn by the Paiute and/or Ute Peoples who are indiginous to this area.

Delicate Arch

Wolfe Ranch cabin

petroplyphs at Wolfe Ranch

Since I’ve got a lot more photos of our visit, I’m going to break this up into two parts and share the rest of the pics nest week. I hope you enjoyed this travel update and I’ll be back soon with Harvest Monday!