RV Camping at Arches National Park

This is the second part of our first RV trip to Utah Mighty five National parks loop. Here are the links to the previous post(planning first RV trip) and the next post (Canyonlands National Park )

April 2, 2022:

After an early fresh bagel breakfast, my DH set out to pick up the RV. It was completely worth to start early by 8am instead of the usual 6pm, so we have time to load and reach Arches National Park. We loaded the RV with the all the essentials, clothing, and stocked up the fridge and pantry, did lunch and started driving to our first destination – Devils Garden Campground, the northern most point in the Arches National Park. The campsite was wide open with the distant snow caps and I still needed time to get used to the orange hues instead of all green. We had our first campfire under the stars, thanks to the kind ranger for lending the fire-starting liquid and maps. The propane hookup from the RV to the grill was very convenient for meats.

April 3, 2022:

Morning was very chilly, so RV was very comfortable for the LO. A quick morning stroll took us to the Skyline arch which was clearly seen from the restrooms. We moved to our next campsite early in the morning and this location is tucked in unlike the last one. We hiked on the Sand Dune and Broken Arch trail within the campground to see the two arches and in the afternoon walked to the popular Devils Garden Trail to explore more arches: Pine Tree Arch, Tunnel Arch, Landscape arch, Navajo arch and Partition arch. It was a long day and the kids did amazingly well.

April 4, 2022:

This morning we started with hike to Delicate arch. Although it was a full parking, we had no issues as there was a dedicated parking lot just for RV/Trailer on the other side of the trailhead. We saw Ute petroglyphs and Wolfe ranch cabin (built 1888 and abandoned in 1910) by the Salt Wash early in the trail.  The trail was stroller accessible for some distance until the base of a steep sandstone hill.  It’s a popular trail with cairns (stacks of rocks) to guide and a ledge in the last took us to the delicate arch.

 After lunch, we went to the view points and started driving south in the park and stopped at Double Arch, North and south windows. We saw more landmarks on the way from the La Sal Mountains Viewpoint- Three gossips, Sheep rock etc and drove to Moab. This night, we parked at the Spanish Trail RV Park, so we can have full hook ups, showers and laundry.