Tues, 5/18/10. 8:15 am.. coffee, breakfast and make trail mix. We are ready for hiking! From the campground, drive 2 miles and enter Arches National Park.
RVTip#5 - All you seniors out there need to get a one-time purchase ($10) Golden Pass. It will get you in all National Parks free!
Over 100 million years of erosion created the sculptured rock scenery in Arches National Park. There are over 2000 arches ranging in size from a 3-ft opening to the longest--Landscape Arch--measuring 306 ft base to base. American Indians used this area for thousands of years. The 18-mile scenic drive is amazing! Hiked 3-4 miles through trails of magnificent stone arches, fins, balanced rocks and other geological formations.
Leave Moab at 4:30pm after filling up with diesel and propane gas. Take Rt. 191 to I-70 West. Exit 23 to I89 South. Time to find a site for the night.
"In the Big Rock Candy Mountains, There's a land that's fair and bright, Where the handouts grow on bushes, And you sleep out every night. Where the boxcars are all empty, And the sun shines every day, And the birds and bees, And the cigarette trees, The lemonade springs, Where the bluebird sings, In the Big Rock Candy Mountains." Question: What singer is best remembered for recording in 1949 "Big Rock Candy Mountain"? (answer at end of post).
Caramel-colored mountains and lemonade springs...do I see a bluebird? We must stay here for the night!!
Answer to question above: Burl Ives
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