“With more hiking trails, bike paths, parking spaces, campgrounds, yurts and picnic tables, we can enjoy many more of the 2,000 arches in Arches National Park and have a better experience.” ...

Arches National Park closes popular hiking area Fiery Furnace indefinitely Advocates are concerned that lack of staff could lead to fewer tourists in areas surrounding national parks.

FILE: Turret Arch at Arches National Park, with snow-covered La Sal Mountains in the background. Brad McGinley/Getty Images. By Adrianna Nine, Southwest Contributing Parks Editor April 27, 2025.

In April 2023, Arches National Park implemented a timed entry system to pace visitors' arrival times to alleviate overcrowding and congestion among some 1.8 million visitors a year.

Arches National Park is open 24 hours a day. The visitor center is open 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the peak summertime, it's on a restricted schedule the rest of the year.

MOAB — It's the start of the busy season at Arches National Park. For the third year in a row, the park is testing a timed-entry system to spread out crowds throughout the day. Officials say it ...

Arches National Park will resume its timed-entry program in 2025. A significant change includes no timed-entry requirement from July 7 to Aug. 26, 2025.