I love a good trip to a gorgeous national park to remind me of the splendor or our Creator.
Arches was not the first National Park we visited on our trip (as you would notice in the summary of pictures blog post), but I just felt like posting about Arches today, so I will.
We drove through some of the park and got a lovely view of Balanced Rock with some gorgeous snow-capped mountains in the background.
Next we hiked up a half mile trail to see the Upper Delicate Arch Viewpoint. You can hike in a lot closer to the arch from another trailhead, but it's a longer, more strenuous trail, and we didn't want to risk the kids not making it. So we did our mile here, saw the arch and the beautiful landscape leading up to the view and headed back down the half mile and loaded back into the car to see some other sights in Arches.
(look closely; it looks extra tiny in a photograph)
Next we drove to the Fiery Furnace viewpoint. It's named such because of the colors of the rocks when the sun hits it (not shown in this picture obviously)
The pictures above were taken during our second hike (a one mile loop to see the North and South Window Arches as well as Turret Arch). The picture above on the left is the girls sitting in the North Window looking out and the picture on the right is them climbing up to the North Window.
from inside the arch, a little further back
Sophie wasn't digging selfies with Mommy and Daddy
This is the Turret Arch
(the trail leads right up to it, this view is looking across standing by the North and South windows)
Our last little hike in Arches was a short trail (only 1/2 mile loop) to see the Double Arch.
As you can see, it was a lovely afternoon/evening
spent hiking with our beautiful family, making memories, and
basking in the masterful creations of our everlasting God.
(from our road trip from SoCal to California- Day 2- April 20th)
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