Hiking · Arches National Park, Utah, USA · recorded with NomadTracks

Double O Arch via Devils Garden: 12 km through Arches' fin country

Past Landscape Arch — so thin it looks photoshopped — the Devils Garden trail stops being a path and becomes a route: up sandstone fins, along slickrock ledges, out to Double O Arch and back on the primitive loop. 12.3 km, about 500 m of accumulated gain, and constant route-finding fun.

Distance12.3 km
Elevation gain501 m
ActivityHiking
Duration3 h 54 min

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Route map of Double O Arch via Devils Garden: 12 km through Arches' fin country drawn from the recorded GPS points on an OpenStreetMap basemap
The actual recorded GPS track — start marked green, finish orange. Numbered pins mark where the photos below were taken.

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Elevation profile of the track
Elevation profile over the full distance. Switch the map above to interactive mode, then slide across the chart — a marker follows the route.

When the trail is a cairn line

On slickrock there is no trodden path — just cairns and judgment. This is prime recorded-track territory: the line keeps you honest on the primitive loop where every fin gap looks equally plausible.

The NPS map, georeferenced

Arches hands out a fine paper map at the entrance station. Two minutes of control points and it rides along as a live overlay — official trail names and your position, fully offline in a park with practically no coverage past the visitor center.

About the place: Arches National Park, Utah, USA

Devils Garden sits at the end of the park road in Arches National Park, Utah, and holds the densest collection of natural arches on the planet — Landscape Arch's 88-meter span among them. Beyond it, the trail to Double O Arch crosses bare sandstone fins marked only by cairns. Spring and fall are the seasons; summer hiking starts at dawn, and there is no water anywhere on the trail.

Landscape Arch spanning impossibly thin over the Devils Garden
1 · Landscape Arch spanning impossibly thin over the Devils Garden
Sandstone fins of the Devils Garden in Arches National Park
2 · Sandstone fins of the Devils Garden in Arches National Park
Red rock and junipers along the primitive loop near Double O Arch
3 · Red rock and junipers along the primitive loop near Double O Arch
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