Our best advice for hiking and viewing Arches National Park with kids.
We recently returned home from a Spring Break trip to all of Utah’s National Parks – “The Mighty 5.” It was an amazing trip, though a bit exhausting to try to fit it all into one week. The kids were troopers as usual though! We flew into Las Vegas and drove to the furthest parks first, which happened to be Arches and Canyonlands in the Moab area. We spent our first day of hiking in Arches National Park because we were eager to get out and stretch the legs, and since Arches was closer it meant less car-time.
Whenever we travel west we like to try to stay on our home time-schedule to take advantage of getting to the parks early. We drove straight to the hike we knew we wanted to do which was the famous Delicate Arch trail. There are 2 different viewpoints for this arch (Lower Delicate Arch Viewpoint, 100 yard walk, and Upper Delicate Arch Viewpoint, 0.5 mi. walk with stairs) as well as a longer hike right up to the arch. We chose to do the longer hike right up to the arch and were glad we did!
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