With Arches and Canyonlands national parks and Dead Horse Point State Park in the vicinity, Moab is a place where you can get a lot of bang for your buck. You can easily spend more days here, especially if you want to visit the most remote sections of Canyonlands. But 3 days will be plenty…
[Arches National Park, May 1, 2023] My flight out of Salt Lake City was not until 3:30 pm. Even though I had a long drive from Moab – about 3.5 hours – I was determined to squeeze in some last-minute sights in Arches in the morning. I decided to check out Devil’s Garden. Located at…
[Canyonlands National Park, Apr 30, 2023] Canyonlands became a national park in 1964. It protects the countless canyons and fantastically formed buttes carved by the Colorado River and its tributaries. They divide the park into four districts: Island in the Sky, The Needles, The Maze, and the rivers themselves. The Island in the Sky district…
[Arches National Park, Apr 29, 2023] Our agenda for today were the most iconic trails in the park – one everyone’s heard of – Delicate Arch – and one that most people have never heard of – Fiery Furnace. Delicate Arch is widely recognized symbol of the state of Utah (it’s on the license plate!)…
[Moab, UT, April 28, 2023] For our first full day in Moab, we decided to start off with the less obvious choice – Dead Horse Point State Park. It is located at the end of a mesa 5,000 feet above the Colorado River, on the edge of Canyonlands National Park. The views rival those at…