{"id":2252,"date":"2025-05-01T22:32:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T22:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/?p=2252"},"modified":"2026-04-18T01:29:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T01:29:06","slug":"arches-national-park-utah-may-1-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/?p=2252","title":{"rendered":"Arches National Park, Utah  May 1, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We flew into Moab to begin our trip of Utah&#8217;s Mighty Five National Parks &#8211; Arches, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef, Zion, and Bryce National Parks. With the exception of the skydiving plane in New Zealand, the plane from Denver to Moab was the smallest plane I&#8217;ve taken. It had room for about 15 passengers and a large cargo area in the back. There was no terminal (just a small tarmac) and baggage claim was a small cart that delivered our bags next to the plane. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s high season in Utah, so I reserved a timed entry for Arches National Park. There were several cars in the parking lots, but it wasn&#8217;t as crazy as I thought it would be. The weather is gorgeous &#8211; 70s and sunny. We stopped for photos of Balanced Rock, Windows Arch, and a short but steep hike to view Delicate Arch. Downtown Moab is pretty touristy, but we had a nice dinner and ice cream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_5877-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_5877-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_5877-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_5877-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_5877-1536x1152.png 1536w, https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_5877.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_0386-2-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_0386-2-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_0386-2-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_0386-2-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_0386-2-1536x1152.png 1536w, https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_0386-2.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_2872-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_2872-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_2872-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_2872-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_2872-1536x1152.png 1536w, https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_2872.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_8625-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_8625-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_8625-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_8625-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_8625-1536x1152.png 1536w, https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_8625.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We flew into Moab to begin our trip of Utah&#8217;s Mighty Five National Parks &#8211; Arches, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef, Zion, and Bryce National Parks. With the exception of the skydiving plane in New Zealand, the plane from Denver to Moab was the smallest plane I&#8217;ve taken. It had room for about 15 passengers and a &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/?p=2252\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bos_mb_destination":[""],"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-utah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2252"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2274,"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions\/2274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}