We recently spent spring break in Moab Utah, and there is so much to see!
In this video we're going to take you on a tour of Arches National Park, give you a summary of all the
major stops, and give you some tips on how to avoid the crowds. If you haven't already, please subscribe!
So it's roughly 8:20 and the cars are just rolling in so we're gonna tackle this Arches
National Park by driving through, stopping for pictures while the sun is beautiful -but we're
going to try to make it to the back of the park and then work our way forward throughout the day
This is the courthouse tower stop.
So if you arrive in the morning balanced rock is really difficult to see because
it's just blocked out by the sun but if you pass it there's a little pull out
right past it on the road and so we're going to get some pictures here the lighting is much better
So the one must do for me was Delicate Arch and like i said it's a little after 8:30.
It's a very small parking lot from the trailhead and it was full and it's a Monday however it is
late march near spring break time so if you pass the -It's Wolfe ranch is where you
actually park to hike to delicate arch. That's where you get the really good photographs
but there is a viewpoint a little farther down the road and there's plenty of parking here as you can
see behind me - there's plenty of spots. So we're going to walk to the viewpoint and then we're gonna
try a little later. We're in Moab for better part of the week and so we're going to try
later this afternoon and maybe at a different time to try to get Delicate Arch .
The Delicate Arch viewpoint ; there are two ways to go- there's kind of a fork in the road
there's an upper viewpoint and a lower viewpoint it's a bit of a hike we're going on the upper one
and as you can see (I'm panting). There's a set of stairs to get up to the viewpoint. It
kind of looked on the map like it was just right there so it's a little bit of a walk
so for the people that do the hike to delicate arch
you can see them way way over here on this hill hiking all the way up
and there's a very large line of people I'm gonna zoom in and see if we can see it
all waiting for their instagram photo right there by delicate arch
it's probably a little shaky and here's a view
this is the upper trail for the delicate arch viewpoint
there's pretty views all around
so the lower viewpoint view is basically from right here if you can see above my head let's see
if I can I can't position the camera right there we go you just peep over the hill so i definitely
recommend if you come to the viewpoint to walk if you can if you're able go to the upper the
top of the hill and then you can see it really cool it's kind of neat to see those crowds of
people waiting in line for their pictures too it's a great place to hit up in the morning
so when you see cars starting to park alongside of the road you should take
the nearest parking space don't be picky because these places fill up super fast
so we made our way to the devil's playground campground very end of the road and we're
going to find some hiking trails here we're going to do a little exploring
So we walked around devil's gardens we went to the devil's gardens
the devil? the devil's garden playground! We walked all around the devil's garden playground
and we did the full loop two double o arch and the primitive loop around if you're interested
in watching that hike I'm going to have that on a separate video that I'm going to show at a later
date and then eventually link right up here and now we're gonna sit down and enjoy some lunch and
see if we have any energy to continue on in arches national park today. I don't have the van life but
I do have the highlander life - so we're gonna sit in the back of our highlander and enjoy some lunch
so we just stopped at the Fiery Furnace lookout -uh this is a little better in
the afternoon first thing in the morning it looks
towards the east and the mountains are really hazy of course when the sun's coming up so it's about
2 30 in the afternoon and the colors are really beautiful right now
the trail here at the fiery furnace is currently closed
you get the snowy available which is really spectacular this is the
fiery furnace stop and you can see like down there
looks kind of cool all the different colors
and then i think you've got like balanced rock and some of the other
lookouts a part of arches are over in that area of the park in terms of parking first thing in
the morning i think there is a mad rush for anyone who wants to do hiking to get to delicate arch and
also to that devil's garden that we were just at and then you know a little later in the morning
I think some of the people that get here really early start to leave after they hike the trail
and so they say if the parking is full to just try back a little later so we'll see
we're going to try at some point to get back to uh delicate arch but i did notice that when we left
devil's garden around 2 p.m there were several spaces it it looked like it had i'd probably say
probably maxed out about 9 or 10 a.m and then people start to leave and spaces start to open up
this is the garden of eden viewpoint right here you can see several people hiking up
to these rocks maybe doing some rock climbing up there and it's just very spectacular views
the mountains off to the distance and we're going to continue to the windows down this road
the area called the windows you definitely don't want to miss that it looks so cool
we arrived at the windows area around 3 p.m and we were fascinated with the formations
however the parking lot was full and quite frankly we were rather exhausted after hiking
about eight miles in the devil's garden area so we decided to head back into moab
to get some rest and refuel and head back up to arches later that evening
note to self nothing is fast in moab not even the fast food mo slow slow slow abs
sloan moab it's been about 15 minutes so we're still on the line at wendy's
so so far my experience in moab has been less than ideal just because it is so crowded
our budget hotel has been very problematic um but it is like
at least half if not three times cheaper than the other hotels in the area so i'm sticking it out
sucking it up and just dealing with it to save some money but there's like a constant stream of
traffic through the main drag there's construction right now as well so it's kind of hard to get
around and everything service everywhere has been really slow we waited 35 minutes in the wendy's
drive through and the workers were strange i don't really know what was going on in there
they said they were severely short they were high i think they were high or something really weird
so um just plan accordingly don't expect to get anything done in a hurry here
we continued this strategy for several days we would come back into town mid-afternoon
and then we would head back up to arches national park as the crowds were heading
into moab for dinner it worked really great and we got right in without a weight okay and we're
back after a little snack and some rest time and it's about 6 p.m and we actually got a parking
space right up front which is really nice so once most people head back into town for dinner it's a
good place to come on back up here and see some of the sites that are typically pretty crowded
this is the south arch behind me and so far this windows area
is my favorite there are many cool arches and honestly
today at the devil's garden there weren't as many arches as i was expecting to see and this
area really makes up for it so make sure you make time to come and visit the windows area
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