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Arches National Park
General Info & Web sites
Arches National Park is known for its natural sandstone arches and unique formations, carved by the powerful forces of water, frost and wind. Visitors to the park can see over 2,000 arches, including the world-famous Delicate Arch. Arches National Park is located near Moab, Utah in red-rock country, overlooking the gorge of the Colorado River.
- U.S. National Park Service
- Student Guide to Arches (pdf)
- Utah National Parks
- Canyon Country National Parks
- History and Culture
- Nature and Science
- Curriculum Resources For Teachers
- Utah History Encyclopedia
Maps / Mileage Chart
- NPS Interactive Map
A high resolution, zoomable map of the park. - NPS Printable Map (pdf)
The full-color map that's handed out at the entrance station. Includes trails, roads and points of interest.
- Google Map
Browser based map of the park. Click and drag maps to view adjacent sections immediately. View satellite images of the park that you can zoom and pan.
- Google Map with Site Markers
Small pictures of the locations are included with the markers. All locations on this map are extremely accurate and based off of a National Geographic Trail Map. - Arches National Park Map (jpg)
Created by Justin Morris - GPS Map of Arches National Park
Downloadable GPS Map.
Photos
- Utah Collections
A collection of pictures, videos and documents related to the park. - About.com
US/Canadian Parks Photo Gallery: Arches National Park - Sandstone Arches. - Arches National Park - Photo Gallery
Pictures of Arches National Park. - Arches Slide Show
Photo Gallery of Arches National Park by Moab Utah. - Go-Utah.com
Arches National Park, Utah Photo Gallery - Beautiful photos, pictures, images. - nps.gov
US National Park Service photo gallery of Arches. - OhRanger.com
Photos of Arches National Park. - TrekEarth
This Arches National Park photo gallery is part of the TrekEarth Photo Gallery, a website devoted to photos from around the world.
Sights to See
| Average Temperatures | ||
| January |
44°F | 22°F |
| February | 52°F | 28°F |
| March | 64°F | 35°F |
| April | 71°F | 42°F |
| May | 82°F | 51°F |
| June | 93°F | 60°F |
| July | 100°F | 67°F |
| August | 97°F | 66°F |
| September | 88°F | 55°F |
| October | 74°F | 42°F |
| November | 56°F | 33°F |
| December | 45°F | 23°F |
- 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 column of dark stone 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, very long arch over 300 feet (100 m); the largest in the park
- Petrified Dunes - petrified remnants of sand dunes blown from the ancient lakes that covered the area.
- Wall Arch - located along the popular Devils Garden Trail. Collapsed sometime on August 4-5, 2008
Park Activities 
Scenic Drives
World's Biggest Arch
Arch in Utah national park called world's biggest 
By Mike Stark
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah state geologists and a group of intrepid volunteers say they've finally answered a nagging geological question: What's the longest natural arch in the world?
The answer, they say, is Landscape Arch in Arches National Park in southeastern Utah.
Of course, it all depends on how you measure it. But members of the all-volunteer Natural Arch and Bridge Society spent years developing a standardized measurement that looks at the widest horizontal opening in each arch — not the arch itself.
Using that yardstick, they found that Landscape Arch spanned about 290 feet. Kolob Arch in Zion National Park came in at 3 feet shorter.
Grant Willis, a geological mapper at the Utah Geological Survey, said the group's survey — which ranks the top 10 arches in the world — finally offers definitive answers about the arches with the longest spans. Read More ....