Thursday, March 13, 2008

Arches in Arches (National Park)











Arches National Park is named (naturally) for the large number of arches found within its boundaries. To get a sense of its layout, look at the park map at:
http://www.arches.national-park.com/map.htm
These are a small sample of the arches found there , in order:
1. Unnamed arch on the trail to Delicate Arch.
2. Delicate Arch - iconic symbol of the park.
3. The formation containing Delicate Arch from a couple of miles off and higher up. Note Delicate Arch is to the left of a cluster of approximately one half dozen "mounds", and one third in from the left of the image.
4. Landscape Arch - along a trail starting at the North end of the road inside the park.
5. A small unnamed arch along the trail at the North end of the road.
6. Partition Arch - also along the above -mentioned trail.
7. Navajo Arch - again along the north trail - but on a loop back to the Southwest.
8. Skyline Arch - along the road South of the campgrounds.
9. Triple Arch - For those of you who watched the movie "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade", you may remember this as one of the locations in the early part of the film. In fact, most of the early part of the film was shot on location in various parts of the park.

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