Arches & Canyonlands October 2021

Moab, Utah, home to Arches National Park and Canyonlands National Parks, is surrounded by some of the most stunning red rock landscapes on Earth.

With more than 2,000 arches located in the park’s 76,518 acres, Arches National Park contains the world’s largest concentration of natural sandstone arches. It also has an astounding variety of other geological formations, including colossal sandstone fins, massive balanced rocks, soaring pinnacles and spires.

Canyonlands National Park has countless canyons and fantastically formed buttes carved by the Colorado River and its tributaries. With more than 337,598 acres of colorful canyons, mesas, buttes, fins, arches, and spires in the heart of southeast Utah’s high desert, Canyonlands National Park is divided into four districts: Island in the Sky, the Needles, the Maze, and the Colorado and Green rivers.

This photo essay only scratches the surface of these astoundingly beautiful places.