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COLORADO RIVER BRIDGE is north of Moab, Utah, headquarters for visits to Arches National Monument. Nearby the bridge is a fresh water spring.
THE ELEPHANT HERD, a fantastically real formation, is located in the Windows section of Arches Monument. Best filmed midday to midafternoon.
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DEAD HORSE POINT, named for a band of wild horses which perished in sight of the mighty Colorado, is best filmed in afternoon or evening.
NE of the most fascinating and colorful areas in an altogether fascinating and colorful land is Arches National Monument, in the southeastern section of Utah. Even in this land where spectacular erosion and fantastic formations are commonplace, the area is unique.
Imagine, if you can, a single beautiful arch, delicately carved and colored and yet massive enough in stature to dwarf the observer into insignificance. Now take eighty or more such formations, each one unique in its own way ; gather them together within a twenty five mile radius, and you have the Arches National Monument — truly a color filmer's paradise if there ever was one.
The only catch is that the filming very definitely comes under the heading of rugged. Rugged, but by no means impossible.
BEST SEASONS TO VISIT
Best time to visit the Arches is in the spring or autumn; April, May and June, or September, October and November. Of course, it can be and is visited in July and August, but that's when that rugged filming I mentioned is spelled with a capital "R." I visited it myself during the middle of last July.
Arches National Monument is reached by a nine mile road (US 93) that branches east from Highway US 160 at a point twelve miles north of Moab, Utah. Travelers on US 50 would turn south at Crescent Junction (between Green River and the Colorado line) and follow US 160 twenty miles to the same spot. The entire area is extremely arid, so carry plenty of water, particularly in warm weather. This holds true when traveling anywhere in this section, whether you intend to visit the Arches or not.
HEADQUARTERS AT MOAB There are no accommodations at the monument other than a few tables and benches and a small water tank (which is kept filled by the custodian) at the end of the road in the Windows section. The best thing to do is to make Moab (twelve miles south of the turnoff) your headquarters and drive the few miles out to the monument and back each day. Yes, each day, for you will need the better part of a filming day for each of the two main sections, The Windows and Devil's Garden. By careful timing one might be able to include Delicate Arch along with one of the other sections. . . . Chances are, though, that you will be so enthusiastic about the place you will spend more than a day in each and will use part of another to pick up scenes of Delicate Arch.
Arid but awesome, the Arches National Monument, in southeastern Utah, offers more than eighty giant natural sculptures