NOVEMBER 2011 & NOVEMBER 2016
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| PINE TREE ARCH |
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| PINE TREE ARCH |
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| TUNNEL ARCH |
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| LANDSCAPE ARCH |
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| NAVAJO ARCH |
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| DOUBLE O ARCH |
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| DOUBLE O ARCH |
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| THE FINS |
Devils Garden is one of my favorite hikes in Arches National Park. It is roughly nine miles round-trip if you take all of the spur trails, and passes by many cool arches and rock formations. Not far from the trailhead, a spur trail will take you down to Pine Tree and Tunnel Arches and then continue on to Landscape Arch, the fifth-longest natural arch in the world.
A little past Landscape Arch you will pass the recently collapsed Wall Arch, and another spur trail leading to Navajo Arch and Partition Arch. The trail then continues to Double O Arch where you have the option of continuing on to Dark Angel or taking a primitive trail back to Landscape Arch. I remember being unimpressed with Dark Angel, but really enjoying the primitive trail, as it passes by another arch and some really cool rock fins. The primitive trail is also a lot less crowded than the main trail.
This is understandably a popular trail, so try to go in the off-season or early in the morning if you want to beat the crowds. I first hiked this on Thanksgiving weekend mistakenly assuming this would be a slow time of year. It turns out Thanksgiving is a very popular time to visit Arches. If you really want solitude, plan to go between December and March. Though be sure to check the weather as Moab can get hit by large snow storms every now and then. I remember having a rough ride out of Moab on a snow-covered road during one of my winter trips to the area.
