Cette excursion explore l'arrière-pays du parc national des Arches en environ 4 heures. Vous voyagerez à bord de l'un de nos véhicules 4x4 tout-terrain, chauffés et climatisés, pour un confort optimal en toute saison. Tout au long de cette demi-journée, vous découvrirez les parcs, l'histoire et la géologie de la région de Moab. Votre guide vous montrera les formations rocheuses des Arches et d'autres paysages imposants tout au long du parcours. Nos excursions étant privées, nous pouvons nous arrêter à tout moment pour prendre des photos. Les sites touristiques de cette excursion incluent, entre autres, Marching Men, Tower Arch et Eye of the Whale Arch. Cette excursion comprend des sections sur route goudronnée et des sections sur route 4x4 non goudronnées. L'eau et les collations sont toujours offertes. Cette excursion comprend l'entrée au parc national. Une réservation au parc national des Arches n'est pas nécessaire pour participer à cette excursion.

Before crossing into the national park, our off-road route cuts directly through Utahraptor State Park, home to one of the densest Early Cretaceous dinosaur bone beds in North America. Here, we leave the 4x4 for a short walk to examine fossilized dinosaur tracks permanently stamped into the desert stone. Your guide will decode these ancient footprints, introducing you to the prehistoric hunters—including the massive, fearsome Utahraptor—that ruled this exact terrain millions of years before the arches even formed.

Eye of the Whale Arch is located in the Herdina Park area of Arches. An optional 1/2 mile hike leads you under the arch to an outcropping of seldom visited red rock formations

Standing over 128 feet tall, Balanced Rock is one of the park’s ultimate heavy hitters, but it’s a lot more than just a great photo stop. Your guide will show you how this massive, 3,500-ton block of Entrada Sandstone is performing a high-wire balancing act atop a shrinking pedestal of softer Dewey Bridge mudstone. It is a perfect, real-time demonstration of how different rock layers erode at different speeds, offering a striking reminder that this ancient landscape is constantly changing right before our eyes.

No trip to Arches is complete without seeing the park’s crowning jewel. Our route brings us to a overlook, offering a classic long-distance view of Delicate Arch.

This spectacular zone features the highest concentration of massive spans in the entire park, including North Window, South Window, Turret Arch, and the towering Double Arch. Your guide will point out the massive cavernous openings of Double Arch—famously featured in the opening scene of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade as the hidden cave of the Cross of Coronado. Beyond the movie magic, you’ll discover how these immense amphitheaters were hollowed out from the inside out, creating some of the most dramatic overhead architecture in the American Southwest.