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| $/park information |
| Entrance fee $5 - individual - 7 days $10 - vehicle - 7 days (another source follows) $3 - vehicle $1 - per person (When there is an educational purpose, there is a fee waiver) Permits are required to enter the Fiery Furnace $1- child (6-12) $2- adult $25 for annual (another sources says $10) $10 a night at sites |
| Email- [email protected] Fax- 435-719-2305 Address- PO Box 907 Moab, UT, 84532- 0907 Visitor Info- (435) 719- 2299 (TDD) (435) 719-2319 Headquarters- (435) 719-2100 Visitor Center open 8- 4:30 (closed Christmas) In 1999- 869,980 visits FY 2000 Annual Budget- $949,000 There is a special park show every half hour Highest visitation is in March- October There is no lodging in Arches. |
| A little history |
| -In 1929- President Hoover signed Arches as a national monument -It is 114 square miles -In 1971- President Nixon signed Arches as a national park -A man named John Wesley Wolf had a ranch and cabin at the park in 1888. They might have come before then but they do not know. -Paleo-Indians lived in Arches 12,000 years ago (until 9,500 years ago) hunting -The native people at Arches made tools out of the rocks and the trained eye can still see the piles of debris left -After that came the Fremont and?Anasazi and those people left when the Europeans came in (700 years ago). While they were they they grew maize, beans, and squash -Denis Julien first recorded his entrance into Arches in 1855 -Moab was originally a center for uranium mining |
| The Puebloan people left these petroglyphs |
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