Archers National Park

Today it was Arches National Park. Sue would not let me take her picture as she has a cold, so I had to pose. This was outside of the visitors center. From there you drive up a twisty road and get to see all kinds of cool things. The drive is about 18 miles from the entrance to the campground at the end of the trail. There are some side trips to various points of interest.

One of the sights is "Three gossips" As you can see it looks like it must be three ladies. Now how could they name a pile of rocks like this "Three gossips" It is really amazing how these rocks have just been left this way.

A little up the road is the "Balanced Rock" The sign says that the rock on top weighs 3500 tons. If you look at the rock it looks like it has been cemented in place. But if you look at all the stuff around the area you see that there is a strip of I guess they would call it the layers of the past geological times that run at the same level. Still how does that thing stay up there.

Still further down the road is the stop off point to see "Delicate Arch" There is what they call a moderately strenuous walk of about 1.5 miles with a elevation climb of 500 feet. Had Sue have felt better, I'm sure she would have dragged me up the hill. So we took a picture from the view point. Actually it's a picture of a sign. Next time we will make the trip to the arch, :)

At the same parking lot was a old homestead site called "Wolfe Ranch". The story says that a fellow named Wolfe who was injured in the Civil War homesteaded there in 1800 or something. He built a small home in the rocks with a dirt floor. Family showed up a few years later and and convinced him to built a better home with a wooden floor. The new place might be 10 x 20 feet. They had a corral for cattle. They must have been very happy. Hard to imagine in this day in age.

I didn't take any pictures at the campground. I did enjoy driving thru it as this is the place Howard ad Linda of "RV Dreams" spent last spring. They are the ones on the left of my blog. I have been reading their blog for a long time. It was interesting seeing the campground that the talked about so much. Howard takes some really good pictures of the place they are at. Check them out at "RV Dreams"

On the way back down the drive we stopped at what they call "Windows" There were three or four archers in this area.

After we left the park we stopped at a new walking bridge over the Colorado River. Now we can say we walked across the Colorado River. It was a really nice bridge just for walking. The view was also very good.

After a full day we came back home. The guard dog was waiting for us. I had to go to the store for Chicken Noodle soup for Sue. Charlie suggested some flowers so we had a festive dinner of soup, crackers and flower. Charlie felt good. Sue was happy.