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!

Balanced Rock

The Gossips

Deer was on same hike to Landscape Arch

Landscape Arch has 306 foot span. Since 1991, three slabs of sandstone have fallen from the thinnest section. 

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. 

Green River Overlook

So, so lucky to be one of twelve campers at Willow Flat Campground at Island in the Sky

Flowers growing along highway/walkway

 Flowers and pinyon-juniper forests survive on less than 10 inches of rain annually.

Pinyon tree (pine nuts)

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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