Mesa Arch Trail
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- Distance: 0.25 mile one-way
- Duration: 30 minutes
- Elevation change: 80 feet
- Effort: easy
- Trailhead: on the left 5.5 miles from the neck
This easy trail leads to a dramatic arch that rises on the rim of a sheer 800-foot cliff. You’ll marvel as to how this arch has survived at all in its precarious location (and gasp as adventurers climb the precipitous arch for photos).
On the way, the road crosses the grasslands and scattered juniper trees of Gray’s Pasture. A trail brochure, available at the start, describes the ecology of the mesa. The arch, eroded from Navajo sandstone, frames views of rock formations below and the La Sal Mountains in the distance.
© W.C. McRae and Judy Jewell from Moon Utah, 8th Edition
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