Arches National Park, UT

Yesterday we did Arches NP. We were pretty stoked on it since it is one of the more famous NP's and the symbol of Utah. It took about an hour to drive from our campsite in Canyonlands to the front gate of Arches NP. We stopped at the visitor center, which had some awesome statues out front ( a Big Horn Sheep, "looky here, it's a Big Horn, quick staring contest you and me right now, you win you always do"). We of coursed ask the ranger which trails and overlooks to check out and then we watched a movie. It was actually about both Canyonlands and Arches, which was pretty cool to get all the info about the parks.
We drove out to our first trail, Windows trail, where we would get to see a couple of different arches in the rock that made it look like windows. As we were driving through the first part of the park we got to see a lot of their famous sights. We saw the "3 gossips", "balance rock", and "courthouse wall." We then got to Windows. It was about a 2 mile roundtrip trail with some awesome arches. The arches are made from pieces of the sandstone wall caving in the middle exposing a hole. What is crazy about all of the arches we have seen and stood under is that there is a crazy wind the blows through them from the valley below. Each arch was very different looking.
After Windows we went to Devils Garden, where we hiked out to Landscape Arch. Landscape Arch is the biggest arch in the park and also the most delicate these days. In 1991 about a 72 foot piece of the arch fell down making the arch thinner. They no longer let people hike right up to the arch, for hiker safety and to preserve the arch.
After Landscape arch, we had a little picnic in the truck, Peanut Butter Jelly Time, Peanut Butter Jelly Time. Then Joe hiked out to Sand Dune Arch (I took a little break, was saving my energy for the big hike to Delicate Arch) and stood on top (check out the photos).
We then went to the most famous arch, Delicate Arch, do not know why they call it that because it does not look delicate at all. We hiked up almost 2 miles, half of the trail being straight up the side a sandstone mountain. But once we got to the Delicate Arch it was totally worth it. It is HUGE! People also say it looks like cowboy chaps. We got some nice people to take our photo under it and then we took some photos of our own. It was really incredible. By the time we got back to the truck we were sooo tired and the weather was starting to turn bad.
We got back to our campsite and made a delicious meal of pancakes and bacon ( ode to our moms!) for dinner and zonked out!
We decided to stay in our campsite one more night to check out the town of Moab, get some free wifi and plan out our trip to Colorado!