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The beautiful LaSal Mountains provide a backdrop for many of the pictures you'll take here, and in Canyonlands National Park, later today.

After you drive by the petrified sand dunes, you'll arrive at Balanced Rock.  An easy, short trail loops around the base, and is handicapped accessible.

Same rock, different angle.

The Windows

The North Window.

An easy trail takes you right up to, and underneath, the North Window.

Turret Arch

In a way, it's a shame the arches and other rock formations are so spectacular, because it's easy to miss the incredible landscape that stretches out for miles.  Even the ground itself expresses a rainbow of colors, from red to brown to a tarnished-copper shade of green.

A close-up view below Turret Arch

This is one of my favorite photos, and it wasn't an easy one to get.  You're looking at South Window arch, through Turret Arch.  Lining up this shot required me to balance on the edge of a steep drop-off, and reach as far out over the ledge as I could.

	This page is all about my first visit to Arches National Park, in 2004.  I returned in 2005 (in the middle of a rare rainstorm, no less!).  If you'd like to read about my second visit to Arches National Park, click here.

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Mexican Hat, Utah     Delicate Arch     Also In This Area: Delicate Arch Trail, Arches National Park, Utah Gemini Bridges Road to Twin Natural Bridges, Moab, Utah Canyonlands National Park - Island In The Sky, Grand View Point Arches National Park at Sunset - the first night in Moab Hole n'' The Rock, Home Carved Out of Sandstone Mountain Utah Route 279 - Potash Road, along the Colorado River, Moab - Petroglyphs Canyonlands National Park - Mesa Arch Long Canyon Road, 4x4, From Dead Horse Point to the Colorado River, Utah Arches National Park at Sunset - the second night in Moab