National Parks Traveler Podcast Episode 250 | Exploring Arches National Park

By Jess Repanshek - November 26th, 2023

Utah has five spectacular national parks, and Arches is one of them. It’s a relatively small park. The scenic drive is only 18 miles long, ending at the Devil’s Garden area, but you’ll have incredible views of the reddish rockscape the entire way right from your vehicle.

Of course, it’s always better to get out on the trails and take in as much off-road as your timetable and legs will allow. Two of the park’s most impressive arches – Delicate Arch and Landscape Arch – are well worth the hiking you’ll need to tackle to stand in awe before them.

This week the Traveler’s Lynn Riddick and her trip companion, Tica Nathan, spent a day and a half in the park and offer up some of their experiences and observations.

0:02 National Parks Traveler introduction
0:12 Episode Intro with Kurt Repanshek
0:45 Vista Verde - Tim Heintz - The Sounds of Peaks, Plateaus and Canyons
1:05 Interior Federal Credit Union
1:39 Xplorer Maps
2:00 The Everglades Foundation
2:12 Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation
2:38 Episode 250 - Exploring Arches National Park
10:20 Escalante - Tim Heintz - The Sounds of Peaks, Plateaus and Canyons
10:29 Grand Teton National Park Foundation
10:58 Washington’s National Park Fund
11:30 Yosemite Conservancy
11:52 Friends of Acadia
12:23 Episode 250 - Exploring Arches National Park Continues
22:25 Almost Home - Randy Petersen - The Sounds of the Great Smoky Mountains
22:34 NPT Promo
24:10 Great Smoky Mountains Association
24:31 Potrero Group
25:02 Episode 250 - Exploring Arches National Park Continues
35:11 Shenandoah - Randy Petersen - The Sounds of Shenandoah
35:20 Episode Closing
35:34 Orange Tree Productions
36:07 Splitbeard Productions
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