Double Arch Alcove
Zion National Park, Utah

Double Arch

In northwestern Zion there are a series of deep, narrow canyons all running east to west, each over a thousand feet deep, carved out of the reddest layer of the Navaho sandstone formation. I first saw these canyons on a snowy twilight evening, and knew I had to return to explore them in detail.

This magnificent double arch on the west fork of Taylor Creek is the only double arch system I know of where the second arch is vertically above the other. To get this image I found a vantage atop a boulder, then composed a vertical panorama.

Zion’s grandeur is personal, almost intimate in places like this. The walls are right there in all their immensity and power, holding stands of emerald forest like children tucked safe away in the arms of a parent. You can walk over and touch base of these walls, feel the texture of hard, fine grained sandstone under your fingertips as you crane your neck to look straight-straight up.

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