Arches National Park review: The world’s largest concentration of natural sandstone arches and a truly magical place…
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Arches National Park, Utah Wallace Stegner: “National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.” When my wife and I were planning our cross country road trip going from North Carolina to California , visiting various national parks was our absolute number one priority. Thanks to so many great national parks in the United States though, we really had a difficult time figuring out which ones to visit. Our trip would be in the winter months (November 28-February 9), so we eliminated national parks that are on the northern half of the country. Those would include places like Yellowstone, Glacial, Yosemite National Parks . The reasons for skipping those parks on the northern half of the country were two: 1) we did not want to hit inclement weather like snow and freezing rain and 2) we did not want to hike/sightsee in really cold weather. We planned on visiting those parks in our near future,