My favorite evening activity when I camp at Utah/s Arches National Park is to hit several spots along the park road between Fiery Furnace and the Devil/s Garden campground, hoping to capture the effects of the late day sun on the variety of red rock fins, pillars and other outcroppings with my camera. Fiery Furnace gets its name from the way the sun makes the pillars look like flames, but because they are at the lowest elevation, the Devil/s Garden campground area hangs onto the sun a lot longer.

The redness in the rock depends on ... (more)