グランド郡の峡谷・トップ10

This place is very beautiful

Rockstacker is a really hard trail because of some high consequense features. Harder than Portal if you ride those. Beside of those features it’s kinda too easy. For me not a trail to ride a second time.

Rockstacker is a truly incredible section of running right on the rim, high up above the Colorado River. The trail is easy to follow (via cairns and painted blazes) and can be completed in any direction. If descending from the Pothole Arch Trail, however, there are a few steep spots of downhill scrambling at the beginning. After this section, enjoy twisting and turning over slickrock, and like all the trails in the area, be very aware of mountain bikers!

The Mill Creek Trailhead is located in the south end of Moab on the end of some residential roads (so please be respectful of locals by parking only in the designated public parking lot and being careful not to blocks roads and driveways). While there are multiple side trails off of the parking lot to various swimming holes along Mill Creek, the main trail takes you past an old power plant spillway and to a stream where you get to choose whether to wade in the water or traverse the slopping slickrock next to the water. This is a fun way to begin your run up Mill Creek Canyon!

Morning Glory Natural Bridge is a huge natural bridge and an incredibly popular hiking and rappelling spot at the end of a scenic side canyon of Grandstaff Canyon. Spanning 243 feet, it is the sixth longest natural rock span in the United States, and an incredibly impressive sight. You can go beneath the bridge to marvel at its beauty and take photographs while also cooling off in the shade. There is a shallow pool of water under Morning Glory Natural Bridge, which is what makes it a bridge as opposed to an arch. This is a fantastic place to sip some water and relax before returning to the trailhead.

This viewpoint and parking area is the final destination if running the Park Avenue Trail and offers fantastic views of the famous Three Gossips formation and Courthouse Towers, including a butte that juts out from the larger Courthouse formation called "The Organ." You also can see the Tower of Babel and Sheep Rock quite well from here; in general you get panoramic views of the entire area. If you did not drop cars, and plan to run back to the Park Ave Trailhead, please go back the way you came on the trail, not the road. Although it is tempting to make it a loop with the Scenic Drive, there is not really a shoulder, the divers are often distracted by the views, and the park service prefers if you stick to the trails in this part of the park for your own safety.

Park Avenue is the name given to the short canyon formed by steep entrada sandstone walls. The name of this impressive canyon comes from early visitors to the area who thought it resembled a city street lined with tall buildings. The sheer rock walls on either side of the easy, well worn trail make this a spectacular canyon to explore and take plenty of photographs of. You also get fantastic views of famous formations like the Three Gossips and the Tower of Babel as you continue down the canyon north.

This section of the popular Hidden Valley Trail takes you through the beautiful, wide valley that gives the trail its name. Tucked back in between sandstone cliffs, capped by rounded domes composed of Navajo Sandstone, this peaceful spot feels far further than it actually is from the town of Moab. The flat sandy valley floor is covered in grass and juniper trees and there is an amazing panel of petroglyphs at the base of nearby cliffs to the west.