March 31st We left Bluff this morning and headed off to Canyonlands National Park. We were fortunate and found a campsite in Willow Flats Campground, at a elevation of 6000 feet. This campground has 12 sites so we were very lucky that we had found a place to camp this evening. We decided to stay a couple of nights which was a good thing as this is a lovely campground.
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On the side of road to Canyonlands
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View of Green River Near Campground
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April 1st We got up early and visited several of the viewing
points, White Rim Trail, Mesa Arch, Grand View, and our favorite, Whale Rock. We went for a hour hike up onto Whale Rock which is a slick rock. The view and hike were really enjoyable which we would highly recommend.
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| White Rim Trail |
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| Mesa Arch |
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| Grand View |
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| View from Whale Rock |
April 2nd This morning we decided to drive to Arches National Park, where the campground at Devils Rock is at the end of the 18-mile road. This is a very popular campground which is always full, and we waited for a half hour before we knew we had a site. So today we did several small hikes to view some of the many arches here in the park. This evening the wind blew extremely hard, gusts up to 40 mph, that was throughout the evening and into the morning. Neither of us slept particular well as we were forever being woken up with the gusts shaking Cassie.
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| Pathway to Devils Garden |
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| Path to Landscape Arch |
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| Landscape Arch |
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| Sand Dune Arch |
April 3rd The wind was still blowing hard when we got up this morning, but then it started to rain so we decided not to stay another night at Arches. On our way out of the park we visited several of the Arches we did not have time to enjoy yesterday. We drove about 150 miles today to Saline Utah, we encountered some adverse weather conditions later in the day as we crossed one of the nearly 8000 foot passes it snowed heavy with gale force winds blowing the snow everywhere causing whiteout conditions.
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On Road to Windows Arch
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