![]() Then the red rock glows in the evening sun. ![]() A great time for photographing Delicate Arch is sunset. A trail leads you in less than an hour directly to the Arch which stands on the opposite of an amphitheater-like stone basin. Double Arch Delicate Archĭelicate Arch was our favorite Arch although it was crowded with people as well. Another famous photo spot is Double Arch which also looks great at night with stars. On all the trails you can find nice photo spots! If you look through the North Window you can see Turret Arch. In the Windows Section some short trails are leading to Double Arch and Turret Arch as well as South and North Window Arch. Windows Sectionīefore the intersection to the Windows district, you pass the Balancing Rock formation, which is named after a stone structure where the upper part is much bigger than the rest of the stone formation. In the following I will describe the best places in the park sorted by section. So if you know when you will be there get a reservation! That’s why we only visited the park for one day and drove to a nearby campground outside the park in the evening. The park road ends at Devils Garden (here is also the campground) from where a trail starts to Double O Arch, Landscape Arch, and some others.įor more details and a map see also the Arches National Park Visitor Guide retrieved from the National Park Service website, which you can download here.Ĭamping: If you plan to come to the national park in summer it is nearly impossible to get a site at Devils Garden Campground without reservation. When you drive further into the park you pass the street and trail to Delicate Arch. When you enter the park you pass the first arches and the Balancing Rock formation in the Windows Section. Most sights are located in two sections of the park: the Windows Section and Devils Garden. We spent only one day in the park so we had a lot to discover in little time. It is a nice park but because of its fame it is quite crowded. I sincerely hope you like our trip and if you have any questions about when and where to go while visiting this area just send them to me in a form on my contact page.Arches NP is one of the most famous National Parks in Utah. Below, I’ve added a slideshow showing the highlights of our trip to the area showing the huge landscape photography opportunities the area offers the dedicated photographer. We weren’t disappointed but we did wish we had more time in the area than the 12 days we had for our trip. I had a list of classic areas I wanted to visit and photograph like Delicate Arch, Mesa Arch, The Window Arches, Landscape Arch, Dead Horse Point State Park and Upheaval Dome. People kept helping us out to find the best locations for landscape photography as well suggesting some great classic multipitch rock climbs up a few desert rock towers. The kindness from the locals didn’t stop there. His advice was great, particularly about where to find potable drinking water in the middle of the desert. He also recommended camping at one of the many nice and affordable state campgrounds a little farther west down the highway we were on and let us know about a natural spring close to Moab that had an endless supply of good drinking water about 500m East of the last traffic light on the North end of Moab. That was nice of him and after we finished our lunch I took some time to photograph the Navajo rock carving panel. ![]() After finding out we were OK and noticing that we were tourists from Canada he pointed out a wall of native rock cravings in the rock just 30 meters away in the boulder field beside were we parked. He pulled into where we were parked and asked if we were broke down and needed help. ![]() Shortly after starting to cook we where paid a visit by a polite State Trooper as he passed by us on state scenic byway number 128 just East of Moab along the Colorado River where we had stopped for lunch. As we started to enter the region we stopped by the side of the road to whip up a little lunch. World famous Delicate Arch by Banff Landscape Photographer, Brian MerryĪfter taking two days to reach Moab, Utah, we knew we had reached one of those special places in the world that everyone should see. This area should be on the “must photograph” list of every landscape photographer. In the slideshow at the bottom of this post you’ll see that we were rewarded with some spectacular landscape photography. Last month, April 2015, Kazue and I decided to head down to Southwestern Utah to get an early start on the rock climbing season and to visit a landscape photography location that has been high on my list for decades, Arches National Park and Canyonlands National Park. However, even I need a vacation to travel somewhere else every now and then. Around my home in Banff, Alberta the landscape photography is pretty amazing at the world class level. ![]()
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