Bicycling along Arches National Park's Scenic Drive is a surrealistic adventure through the stage of a popular Saturday morning cartoon. You're not likely to encounter a speeding, desert cuckoo bird, but no doubt you'll suspect a wily coyote is scheming a prank around the next bend.
Balanced Rock is a colossal boulder perched atop a seemingly inadequate base.
At the Windows Section, you can peer through redrock spans across blazing deserts to snow-capped mountains. The Fiery Furnace is a maze of narrow corridors amidst a battalion of marching sandstone fins. And the park's namesake features range from 3-foot to football field in size and number more than 1,500. The entire paved Scenic Drive is 22 miles long. But it's easy to shorten your ride by turning around midway or driving out a ways before embarking.