Arches

The name tells you exactly what you’re going to find, which is unusual for a landscape. Most parks require explanation — you have to describe the geology, the scale, the conditions that made the place. Arches does not. There are arches. More than two thousand of them, carved from Entrada sandstone by millions of years of water, ice, and wind working on a plateau in southeastern Utah. The largest natural arch span on earth is here. So is the most photographed arch in the American West.