you’ll be rewarded with views of Landscape Arch, the park’s longest, most delicate-looking rock arch. Seriously, this thing looks so thin in the middle that it could snap like a twig in a cartoon.

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Sand Dune Arch heads into the towering red rocks to your right, while Broken Arch Trail (both just the out-and-back version and the loop trail) head off to the left.