I learned recently that my old friend Reuben Scolnik had died. He was one of the original “Arch Hunters” at Arches National Park and his efforts are remembered in a permanent display at the park’s visitor center. We were also…
In the Spring of 1964 I traveled into Arches National Monument with my family. We entered the park over the Willow Flats Road, seven or eight miles of rough, one lane, sand and dirt in the family station wagon and…
The story of Bates and Robin Wilson is as much a story of community as it is of their love of the red rock of southeastern Utah. While their “lasting contributions” were accomplished separately, they both endeavored to introduce and…
DATELINE: MOAB, UTAH—APRIL 4, 1956 It seems like only yesterday when our little hamlet of Moab slumbered peacefully, like a throwback to the 19th Century. Quiet lazy mornings. Peaceful green evenings. My serenity was only disturbed by the rumble of…
Until the 1990s, access to the Delicate Arch Trailhead, the Overlook and Wolfe Ranch was via an unpaved gravel road.Superintendent Pete Parry resisted efforts to improve the road, hoping to leave at least one part of Arches in a primitive…
MOAB, UTAH. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1941 Well, it’s been raining buckets since yesterday afternoon and with no end in sight. These storms have been a welcome relief after our long, dry and dusty summer, so I’m not going to mention…
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US 191 AT ARCHES NATIONAL PARK 1940s and Today Until the 1950s, when the road from Crescent Jct to Moab was finally paved, just covering those 30 miles could be an ordeal. In this image, taken in the late 1940s,…
EDITORS NOTE: Last year, the enormous Memorial Day crowds trying to visit Arches National Park finally ovewrwhelmed the place. Parking at the Devils Garden and at Delicate Arch overflowed—there was literally no place to park. Lines of vehicles outside the…
