One thing that we both found amusing is that the arch, which is located ten miles down the dirt Cottonwood Canyon Road in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, is accessed by a paved trail from the parking area. I felt tiny walking around it’s base, more so than other arches I’ve been up close to – so much so that I asked Tom to take a photo of me for scale while I was busy trying to capture it’s magnitude. Over 90 feet high at its highest point, the arch soars overhead, belittling the observer. After our early departure from Hole-in-the-Rock Road we made a few more short stops staying overnight at Kodachrome Basin State Park, which was within 10 miles of the immense Grosvenor Arch, a double arch carved into a dominating outcropping of sandstone rising from the high desert plateau.
