Utah
Arches National Park
Arches National Park has more than two thousand documented natural stone arches, but arches are only one stage in a larger process involving buried salt, uplift, fractures, fins, water and gravity. This guide explains that process through the park’s most recognisable formations, while also adding fragile desert soils, Ute rock art, settler ranching and the history of how a local landmark became a global symbol.
Stories in Arches National Park
- Park Avenue — Before an Arch, There Is a Fin
- Courthouse Towers — Salt Beneath the Sandstone
- Balanced Rock — A Capstone on Borrowed Time
- The Windows and Double Arch — Similar Shapes, Different Mechanics
- Wolfe Ranch — A Homestead in a Landscape That Was Never Empty
- Delicate Arch — How a Geological Form Became a State Symbol
- Fiery Furnace — The Desert’s Fragile Maze
- Landscape Arch — Thin Stone, Active Collapse