Arches National Park - Features

Features

Among the notable features of the park are:

  • Balanced Rock – a large balancing rock, the size of three school buses
  • Courthouse Towers – a collection of tall stone columns
  • Dark Angel – a free-standing 150-foot (46 m) tall sandstone pillar at the end of the Devil's Garden Trail
  • Delicate Arch – a lone-standing arch which has become a symbol of Utah
  • Devil's Garden – with many arches and columns scattered along a ridge
  • Double Arch – two arches that share a common end
  • Fiery Furnace – an area of maze-like narrow passages and tall rock columns (see biblical reference Fiery Furnace)
  • Landscape Arch – a very thin and long arch with a span of 290 feet (88 m)
  • Petrified dunes – petrified remnants of sand dunes blown from the ancient lakes that covered the area
  • Wall Arch – located along the popular Devil's Garden Trail; collapsed sometime on August 4/5, 2008

  • The Double Arch

  • Balanced Rock

  • Skyline Arch

  • Double O Arch

  • The Delicate Arch through Frame Arch

  • Delicate Arch, one of the most famous arches in the world

  • Landscape Arch

  • Balanced Rock During Winter

  • Dark Angel

  • View at the entrance of the Park

  • Parade Of Elephants Panorama

  • Panorama of Delicate Arch area

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