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Where is it located?
Arches National Park lies north of Moab in the state of Utah and is bordered by the Colorado River in the southeast.
Whose land does it reside upon?
People have come to the area that is now Arches National Park for thousands of years. The earliest visitors weren’t just sight-seeing, though. Hunter-gatherers migrated into the area about 10,000 years ago at the end of an Ice Age. As they explored Courthouse Wash and the Salt Valley area, they found pockets of chert and chalcedony: two forms of microcrystalline quartz perfect for making stone tools. Chipping or knapping these rocks into dart points, knives, and scrapers, they created debris piles that are still visible to the trained eye.
Then, roughly two thousand years ago, the nomadic hunters and gatherers began cultivating certain plants and settled the Four Corners region. These early agriculturalists, known as ancestral Puebloans, raised domesticated maize, beans, and squash, and lived in villages like those preserved at Mesa Verde National Park. Evidence shows that farming climaxed between 500 CE and 1300 CE. A change in climate that made farming more difficult may have been a driving factor in a decline in farming
When was it established?
April 12, 1929
About this park:
Discover a landscape of contrasting colors, land forms, and textures unlike any other. The park has over 2,000 natural stone arches, hundreds of soaring pinnacles, massive rock fins, and giant balanced rocks. This red-rock wonderland will amaze you with its formations, refresh you with its trails, and inspire you with its sunsets.
Why did we choose these colors?
Flip through any of the photos of the arches in Arches, and you’ll see why we chose to dye the yarn this way: https://www.nps.gov/media/photo/gallery.htm?pg=5802680&id=221F3BB7-155D-451F-6738DBB434CFBF5E
For more information:
NPS website: https://www.nps.gov/arch/index.htm
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