Devils Garden Trail. Arches N.P.
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 4.96 mi
- Elevation gain
- 751 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 768 ft
- Max elevation
- 5,466 ft
- TrailRank
- 24
- Min elevation
- 5,013 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Coordinates
- 288
- Uploaded
- October 18, 2014
- Recorded
- October 2014
near Elba, Utah (United States)
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Itinerary description
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It is the longest path that exists in the park and its route allows you to see some of the most impressive stone arches that give this place its name.
At the beginning the path runs between high rock walls, it is like the entrance to the "garden". The path is very well prepared, the terrain is flat and it is easy to walk. Approximately after a mile and a half is shown before us the impressive Landscape Arch, one of the largest natural arcs in the world.
Here the trail forks, we take the "Primitive Loop Trail", they are about 3 kilometers more complicated, since the road is less careful. It also delves into the so-called "Fin Canyons", rock formations in the form of "fins". This area is somewhat chaotic, to cross it sometimes we have to climb the inclined rock, others move between the "fins" ... the road seems to be lost in some moments.
We left this area and the road becomes clearer again. The sun is already beginning to warm up, we make small breaks looking for the shade of the few trees, or of the own stone walls. We finally reached the Double 'O' Arch. Nature, especially capricious this time, has decided on the "hardest yet": a stone arch on top of another arch. It is a good place to take a break.
The return is done by another path, this one shorter than the one way. It also passes over fin-shaped rocks, or snakes between them. At some points you have to help yourself with your hands to climb or descend from these rocks. We go through Landscape Arch again and from here we return along the same path through which we started the route. In total, the routes have been about 8 km.
At the beginning the path runs between high rock walls, it is like the entrance to the "garden". The path is very well prepared, the terrain is flat and it is easy to walk. Approximately after a mile and a half is shown before us the impressive Landscape Arch, one of the largest natural arcs in the world.
Here the trail forks, we take the "Primitive Loop Trail", they are about 3 kilometers more complicated, since the road is less careful. It also delves into the so-called "Fin Canyons", rock formations in the form of "fins". This area is somewhat chaotic, to cross it sometimes we have to climb the inclined rock, others move between the "fins" ... the road seems to be lost in some moments.
We left this area and the road becomes clearer again. The sun is already beginning to warm up, we make small breaks looking for the shade of the few trees, or of the own stone walls. We finally reached the Double 'O' Arch. Nature, especially capricious this time, has decided on the "hardest yet": a stone arch on top of another arch. It is a good place to take a break.
The return is done by another path, this one shorter than the one way. It also passes over fin-shaped rocks, or snakes between them. At some points you have to help yourself with your hands to climb or descend from these rocks. We go through Landscape Arch again and from here we return along the same path through which we started the route. In total, the routes have been about 8 km.
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