Arches National Park
More than 2,000 natural sandstone arches stand in this park just north of Moab, the densest collection of them anywhere on Earth. The best known is Delicate Arch, and the fins, spires and balanced rocks around it owe their shapes to a buried bed of salt shifting beneath the desert.
- Where
- Moab, Utah, United States
- Grade
- Well known
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 1 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 38.7281, -109.5400
Get the Arches National Park stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Arches National Park. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Utah volume with your photos and a note.
Near Arches National Park
Canyonlands National Park 65 km
A maze of canyons, mesas and buttes carved by the Colorado and Green rivers and their tributaries in southeastern Utah. The park was created in 1964, and its overlooks look down on layer after layer of coloured rock worn away by the two rivers.
Mesa Verde National Park 187 km
Some of the best preserved Ancestral Puebloan sites in the United States, protected in a park in southwestern Colorado that is the state's only World Heritage Site. Its stone villages include dwellings built into alcoves under the overhanging cliffs, lived in by Pueblo peoples centuries ago.
Monument Valley 200 km
A valley on the Colorado Plateau along the Arizona and Utah line, where sandstone buttes rise as much as 300 metres above the desert floor. It lies within the Navajo Nation, which holds it sacred, and its silhouettes are familiar from decades of Western films.
Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple 236 km
A Hindu temple dedicated to Radha and Krishna, built for the Hindu community of Utah County. It holds weekly services for prayer and meditation and a calendar of seasonal festivals, the best known being the spring Festival of Colors, a Holi celebration that draws huge crowds.
Bryce Canyon National Park 260 km
Not a canyon at all but a row of huge natural amphitheatres cut into the edge of the Paunsaugunt Plateau in southern Utah. They are crowded with hoodoos, thin spires of red, orange and white rock shaped by frost and water, seen from a rim between about 2,400 and 2,700 metres up.
Antelope Canyon 263 km
A slot canyon on Navajo land near Page, its narrow passages carved by water through sandstone that glows orange and purple when sunlight slants in. It has several sections, chiefly the Upper and Lower canyons, and is visited with Navajo guides.
Horseshoe Bend 269 km
A horseshoe-shaped meander of the Colorado River near Page, where the river loops right around a tall sandstone outcrop. From the overlook on the rim it is a sheer drop of about 300 metres to the green water.
Zion National Park 347 km
A national park in southwestern Utah where the Virgin River has cut a deep canyon through red and cream sandstone. Trails like Angels Landing and The Narrows, where hikers wade upstream between sheer walls, draw walkers from around the world.
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Questions
Where is Arches National Park?
Arches National Park is in Moab, Utah, United States. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Canyonlands National Park (65 km), Mesa Verde National Park (187 km), Monument Valley (200 km).
How do I get the Arches National Park stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Arches National Park and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Utah volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Arches National Park before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Utah volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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