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Zion National Park Arches National Park


Arches, as the name implies, is a wonderland of more than 2,000 natural, red sandstone arches, including the iconic Delicate Arch. They frame this area’s amazing beauty and stand as monuments to geologic history a million years in the making. An 18-mile (29-km) paved loop road introduces visitors to a brilliantly- coloured landscape filled with pinnacles, outcrops, faults and fossils. Many trails take hikers through eroded canyons, under soaring arches and around windows of stone. www.nps.gov/arch


Trail Tips The desert sun warms


the slickrock sandstone; take plenty of water. Hit the well-marked Delicate Arch Trail (3mi/4.8km) and prepare your senses: a jaw-dropping view of the 65-foot (20 m) freestanding Delicate Arch fra mes the distant La Sal Mountains.


North Window, Arches National Park 6 visitutah.com


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