Moab- Devils Garden Trail Hike+Photo Journal

Enough is enough. Sometimes you have enough of working and need to get out and play in the beautiful scenery surrounding you.

That’s when Marshall, Becky, and I decided to hike Devil’s Garden Trail early in the morning to beat the crowds.

On our way to Arches National Park, driving out via Dalton Well Road.

We had a few roadblocks on the way.

Run, baby, run!

We were the very first ones there. Goal accomplished. No boring empty parking lot photo, sorry. 😆

Here’s the trail loop. Yeah, I know, not totally thrilling. But, you may be interested if you’re looking to go.

We walked the whole trail, taking the clockwise route.

Rocking colors

See our trail greeter? This is the head of Devils Garden Trail.

Sky through rock

Great cloudage on this day. Great day for a hike!

The trail started off very level and mild but with gorgeous views left and right. The first BIG arch you will come to is Landscape Arch. Here you see the three stooges’ shadows on the trail.

Shadows on the trail

 

Can you see Landscape Arch?

Pretty cool story behind Landscape Arch!

 

Proof I was there! Landscape Arch behind me.

The trail gets interesting after Landscape Arch. Almost immediately you start to climb ‘bread loaf’ rock. It’s fairly steep and the sides drop significantly. Yes, there’s a warning sign for people not to go if they have a fear of heights. I’m thinking that about only 40% of people who hike this go past that point.

Top of the climb, Becks and I can’t help but get weird and have a little fun. 

 

From there we went in and out of little side trails to other arches along the trail. Early hikers had started to catch up with us here and there. #slow

They were taking photos of I THINK an arch called Black Arch or something unflattering like that. I didn’t care to, but the view to the left of it was pretty, well, pretty. So I got them taking a photo of the arch.

Cool tree. Neat-o arch. Not really. Just a cool tree in front of an arch in Arches NP.

‘Bread loaves’ That’s what I call them.

Should he try it???

Very cool formation. Nice rock, too. ; )

This is the kind of stuff you have to climb if you do the whole loop.

How does this perfect natural circle happen?

Then, I jokingly acted like I was pushing Becky off the cliff. I kind of almost did in doing so. 😬

So I went back and tried to help her out.

Then I followed through. LOL! (Drops Mic)

Cool little pool, shaped like a heart from this angle.

Marshall feeling very inadequate.

Dino footprints and bones next time, folks. I was in Moab for quite a while! About two months so I cannot fit it all into one, two or even three stories.

Therefore, this is it for now. Thanks for following on the journey!