Day seven
After a good night's sleep we were on our way to our second National park, named Arches National Park, but not before corssing into UTAH with it's beautiful desert-like scenery.
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After a couple of hours the landscape began to change from flat-ish desert to more Rock-like formations, a sign we were getting closer to the park.
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A couple of kilometers before the park there's a little pull-out with a small church, and more amazing views, which we decided to explore.
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The United States have many great national parks and the state of Utah happens to have a couple of the highlight parks.
The main parks almost everyone on a east-west road-trip visits are Arches National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, Zion National Park and Canyonlands National Park.
The park tour starts with a bang, beautiful views of spectacular rock formations just around the first bend after climbing a big hill.
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Making our way down into the flats, there were lots of pull-outs from the main route with great views.
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Names of things in the park are generally pretty grand, such as this view of the Ancient Sand Dunes
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In the distance we could finally see our first Arches.
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True to our American way of visiting parks on this trip we didn't venture far from our car, missing out on some truly spectacular views. Luckily I was able to make it up on future trips. Always explore the area around the viewpoints, folks!
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We took a side-road down to the valley floor where we spotted some local critters.
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Across from Arches is a lesser known park, called Dead Horse Point State Park. It's still quite a trip from the road leading up to Arches climbing pretty steeply all the way. At the end is a parking spot and a restaurant almost hanging over the cliff where we got some coffee to energise.
It is worth the trouble, though as once you're up there, the views are amazing. I highly recommend the detour!
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