Double O Arch Hike

Double O Arch is actually two arches stacked on top of each other. The arch is located in the Devils Garden portion of Aches National Park approximately 1 mile past Landscape Arch or 2 miles fron the trailhead.

Trip Report: April 13, 2012

Devils Garden to Double O Arch at EveryTrail

After hiking to Landscape Arch, we continued on to Double O Arch.

The sign says it's a primitive trail with difficult hiking...

But we think that must mean for people in wheelchairs because the trail was anything but primitive.

OK, so maybe it did involve climbing some rock fins, but nothing that required the use of hands.

The trail gives you the option of detouring to Partition Arch and Navajo Arch, but we saved those for another trip.

One of the coolest things about the hike to Double O Arch was the view into Devils Garden. You're way up high on a rock fin, and you can see the whole valley. It's an awesome view.

If this was primitive, there wouldn't be nice steps cut into the rock.

The next fin takes you to a view of Black Arch.

Black Arch is the little black spot in the left third of the picture below.

Here's a closeup of Black Arch.

This is where Savannah reached the end of her endurance.

A rock cairn.

Pretty yellow flower.

Cactus.

There were tons of sweet dead trees.

The sand and wind weather until it gets really gnarly.

We got to Double O Arch after about an hour and twenty minutes. Obviously it could be done a lot quicker, but we were enjoying the view along the way.

Double O Arch is an interesting double arch. There is a large hole at the bottom and an even larger hole at the top. The bottom arch is kind of hard to see in the picture below because there are some trees in the way.

Group shot (Bryce, Zac, Savannah, Tara, Jeremy) in the lower arch of Double O Arch.

Here's a picture of Double O Arch stitched from 6 or 8 pictures. No tripod so not bad.

Tara relaxing in the arch.

Here's probably the best shot showing both arches.

I found a way to climb up inside the second arch.

A view from on top of Double O Arch. The guy in the white shirt was from Alaska. He tried to climb up too but couldn't make it.

Bryce and Zac on top of Double O Arch.