Our Trip to Arches National Park near Moab, Utah

Balanced Rock was our first hike. It was only .3 miles around... but the girls favorite hike. Throughout the trip the girls were looking for other balancing rocks, but none they found compared to the Balanced Rock.

The most popular arch is Delicate Arch (on the Utah licence plate). It is a 3 mile strenuous hike up to it, so we opted for the half mile Upper Viewpoint of Delicate Arch. We had the bigger lens on the camera for this one. The arch is about a mile away from this view point.

Another picture of Delicate Arch from the viewpoint.

La Sal Mountains Viewpoint

Arches National Park

Sand Dune Arch was neat, because we hiked through sandstone fins (see picture below) and through red sand to this secluded arch. There was no one else around and it was so peaceful. It was too quiet for Emma.... This was definitely not her favorite hike.

We saw many lizards throughout our trip. I was just glad they weren't snakes, although one did stick out his tongue at us.

This was our first stop inside Arches National Park. This is The Organ. As you can see Madi is very small standing in front of it.

Arches National Park

Landscape Arch spans more than a football field in length. In 1991 part of the arch (thin part to the right) fell. This was our families favorite arch.

Saturday we hiked more then 3 miles looking at the different arches.

Tunnel Arch

Pine Tree Arch

My Little Junior Rangers

The girls participated in the Junior Ranger program at Arches National Park, learning about the park. The second day we were at the park they finished their work and became Junior Rangers. They were so excited.

Arches National Park

The North and South Windows

Turret Arch

Pictograph at Wolfe Ranch

Madi feeling the neat rocks. Look at that dirty hand.

Cabining in Moab, Utah

We stayed at Moab Valley RV Resort on our visit to Arches National Park. We had fun back at camp, with a playground, swimming, golfing and roasting marshmallows. We also met a cabin neighbor and invited her for dinner. We had a wonderful fellowship time with her. We woke up the next morning with four hats on our porch. We will hopefully keep in contact with her via facebook.

Look at that hole

So for those that saw the blog with Madi's top missing tooth, I said that her other one was really close to coming out. It came out two or three days later. How cute is that!