There are just too many great national parks in Utah that I want to explore, yet they are so far away! Distance is the only reason that I haven't explored all of them, and on the past memorial weekend, I decided to just do it! It was a 13-hour drive from Los Angeles, and we started kinda late that Friday, so we ended up arriving at 8am the next day (plus the one hour difference). I planned to arrive a couple hours earlier so that we can take a nap before heading out, unfortunately, the plan was a little off.... We were too excited when we arrived, so we headed out without any sleep.
We spent Saturday and Sunday exploring different part of the Canyonlands National Park. There are three parts of the park, the island in the sky, the maze and the needles. We only explored the island in the sky. We considered going to the needles, but it is 2 hours away plus the best part of it requires long hikes, with the extremely hot weather that weekend, we decided we would just stay on the island in the sky. As for the maze, it is extremely remote and requires a high clearance 4WD, so we just couldn't do it. But we really enjoyed our time there even though we only stayed on the island in the sky.
Some of the highlights:
We headed out to Arches National Park on Sunday night to see the stars! We picked Arches because it is only a 10 minute drive from Moab.
Before we head back to LA on Monday, we went to see the delicate arch, which we missed (still can't believe we missed that!) the first time we went to the Arches. The delicate arch was AMAZING. Definitely should be the #1 thing you do when you go to the Arches National Park! Don't make the same mistakes we did!
