Escalante, UT - Grosvenor Arch

We leave Willis Creek and head back down Skutumpah Road

This time we run into some free range cows crossing the road

Tucson gives them a talking to

A beautiful view on the return trip, you can see the road ahead

We finally make it back to pavement

Oops, I knew the Arches were 11 miles past Kodachrome Basin State Park, didn't know it was dirt road!

Might be a long 11 miles

The colors change along the way

What goes up must come down

and then go up again in Utah

Why am I not comforted by the Mud guard rail?

We make it down and finally make it to our turn off

We made it!

It's a short .2 mile hike up to the Arch

Flying Monkey from OZ or an Archangel?

The “arch” is actually two arches, which rise 150 feet above the ground. The largest of the two arches is almost 100 feet in diameter.

The arch was named in honor of National Geographic Society president Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, the first full-time editor of the National Geographic magazine.

Time to head back home.

Guess we won't continue on the road we came in on

This looks better

This time I get the side with the view.  Still not liking the Mud guard rails

Gary pulls over so I can get some pictures of the views.

I walk out to a point

It's a bit windswept out here

But the view is incredible

We continue on and eventually make it back to the paved road.

I  think I've found our cabin

We stop in the town of Tropic for Dinner before going home

Another great day.  Time is running out though - only 10 days left1