God's incredible creation

Landscape Arch with Navajo and Partition Arches to the right, Arches National Park,UT




Wooden Shoe arch in the Needles section of Canyonlands National Park, UT




View through Mesa Arch in the Island in the Sky section of Canyonlands National Park, UT




On the drive up Kane Creek Canyon Moab, UT




Hovenweep National Monument,UT




Four Corners monument showing where Arizona, Utah, Colorado,and New Mexico meet




Valley of the gods, UT




Goosenecks State Park, UT




Mogi Dugway with Valley of the gods in the distance




Us at Muley Point, UT with Monument Valley in the distance




Butler Wash Ruins near Blanding, UT




Natural Bridges National Monument, UT




Monument Valley, UT




Spider Rock, Canyon de Chelly National Monument, AZ




Giant logs in the Petrified Forest near Rainbow Forest Museum, AZ




The Painted Desert, AZ

We have done so much and seen so much in the last two weeks, I decided I needed to add to the blog early.

After leaving Gunnison, CO we went to Moab, UT where we visited the Arches National Park, both sections of Canyonlands National Park and took the Kane Creek Canyon trail to Hurrah Pass and back. The scenery was incredible! We hiked two miles round trip to Landscape Arch in Arches NP and that about did us in as the temp. was in the mid 90’s. It was worth the hike though. We enjoyed the Needles section of Canyonlands more than Island in the Sky since you actually drive though the canyon and have the towering walls on both sides. The Kane Creek Canyon drive was spectacular and we utilized our 4 wheel drive.

We next moved on to Bluff, UT and visited Hovenweep National Monument, the Four Corners area, Valley of the gods, Goosenecks State Park, drove up the Mogi Dugway, went out to Muley Point, on to Natural Bridges National Monument, stopped to see Mule Canyon Ruins and Butler Wash Ruins and drove through Monument Valley. Such awesome beauty and it is truly amazing how our ancestors lived in such rugged conditions.

Canyon de Chelly National Monument, AZ was our next stop and we drove both rims and attended a presentation by a Navajo ranger who has lived all his life in the canyon near Spider Rock. Again, such awesome scenery—God has done a fabulous job of creation!
Yesterday we visited Painted Desert and Petrified Forest National Park near Holbrook, AZ with more incredible scenery.

We took over 250 pictures and I tried to show one of each area so not to bore you too much.