This might be my favorite park yet.  And not just because there weren’t any crazy hogbacks, razorbacks, switchbacks or evil tunnels to wreak havoc on my nerves.  (I didn’t even know what hogbacks or razorbacks were until I met them in the Big Horn Mountains.  But, that’s another story).

Arches National Park, an easy drive from the funky little town Moab in Utah, is home to well over 2,000 arches.

How are arches formed you ask?

Yeah, I couldn’t read that either.  Try this:

We had lots of amazing examples to see.  For example:

There were lots of other interesting rock formations there too.  Peter made the girls turn away while he posed for this picture:

We were all very impressed with Balanced Rock:

Here’s some for the family photo album:

And finally: