Arches National Park - October 1, 2015

 Since Charlie & I are on a mission to visit our country's national parks, this year we chose to tour Utah's "Mighty 5".............. Arches, Bryce Canyon, Canyonlands, Capital Reef and Zion.
We begin the journey............

Arches National Park is known for containing over 2,000 natural sandstone arches, in addition to a variety of unique geological formations.  Forty three arches are known to have collapsed since 1977.
The wide open areas of the park are desolate and desert like, making the huge sandstone formations

Sandstone towers

rising from the earth especially impressive.  We hiked to several of the arches until the heat (94 degrees) got the best of us.

Balanced Rock