Arches National Park features over 2000 arches -- the greatest concentration of natural stone arches in the world. My photos captured: Balanced Rock, The Gossips, the impressive 306’ span of Landscape Arch. Colossal sandstone fins, massive balanced rocks, soaring pinnacles and spires are seen everywhere you turn at Arches!
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| Balanced Rock |
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| The Gossips |
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| Deer was on same hike to Landscape Arch |
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| Landscape Arch has 306 foot span. Since 1991, three slabs of sandstone have fallen from the thinnest section. |
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| Day ended with campfire and sunset at HorseThief campground |
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Within Canyonlands National Park, the largest national park in
Utah, is Island in the
Sky that sits atop a massive 1500 foot mesa.
We camped at Willow Flat Campground -- a short walk to the Green River Overlook—offering
a beautiful sunset view.
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| Green River Overlook |
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| So, so lucky to be one of twelve campers at Willow Flat Campground at Island in the Sky |
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| Flowers growing along highway/walkway |
Flowers and pinyon-juniper forests survive on less than 10 inches of rain annually.
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| Pinyon tree (pine nuts) |
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Colorado mountains/snow seen during drive back to Chicago
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Spent Thursday night in Colorado; tonight, Friday, night in Nebraska; tomorrow night will camp in Iowa.
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The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise
somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling;
vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and
continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls. – John Muir
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My two cents:
We live in a b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l country with o-u-t-s-t-a-n-d-i-n-g experiences awaiting us at each turn...
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