The New York Times spent 36 hours exploring Moab. Here’s what it liked.

Walk among sandstone towers, experience some of the darkest skies in North America and breathe in the solitude.

(Daniel Brenner | The New York Times) Turret Arch at Arches National Park in Moab, Utah, Oct. 17, 2024. The scrappy desert outpost of Moab, home to just over 5,000 people, welcomes more than three million visitors each year and includes Arches National Park, which no longer requires a reservation to enter after Oct. 31.

The New York Times spent 36 hours exploring Moab. Here’s what it liked.

Walk among sandstone towers, experience some of the darkest skies in North America and breathe in the solitude.

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