Moab is situated in a valley with towering red sandstone cliffs at the sides. It’s the off road driving capital of the USA, and over Easter (which we had forgotten about) they have the Easter Jeep Safari. The town was stuffed to the gills with highly modified Jeeps – hundreds and hundreds of them! They mostly arrived towed behind big motorhomes, so the campgrounds were all full to bursting. We were lucky to get half a tent site.

There are two National Parks and a State Park accessible from here.

Dead Horse Point State Park

Canyonlands National Park

Arches National Park

Arches was lovely – would definitely like to have spent more time there. However, we have our days mapped out, can only spend so long at each place or we won’t get to go everywhere we want to go.We also wanted to go to Delicate Arch (Google for pics) but the car park was full, and by the time we got back to it we were too tired for the fairly strenuous walk.

Next stop – Capitol Reef.