Holiday Cycling Adventures
2005 - Fiery Furnace - Arches National Park
| Visited on 9 September 2005. | © 2006 |
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The above panoramic picture has been taken from the Fiery Furnace Viewpoint in Arches National Park. The Fiery Furnace is an area of maze-like narrow passages and tall rock columns. There are no marked trail in the Fiery Furnace, though there are ranger-guided walks.
Delicate Arch, a lone-standing arch which has become a symbol of Utah (see next panoramic picture).- Balanced Rock, a large balancing rock.
- Double Arch, two arches located close to each other.
- Landscape Arch, a very thin, long arch over 300 feet (100 m), the largest in the park.
- Devil's Garden, with many arches and columns scattered along a ridge.
- Dark Angel, a free-standing column of dark stone at the end of the Devil's Garden trail.
- Courthouse Towers, a collection of tall columns.
- Petrified dunes, petrified remnants of sand dunes blown from the ancient lakes that covered the area.
Other notable features of Arches National Park are:
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