Full-Day Audio Driving Tour of Arches National Park Discount Tickets

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Overview

The surreal beauty of Arches National Park awaits! Did you know that this one-of-a-kind park is home to the highest concentration of natural stone arches in the world? Yep! And you can experience the wonders of Arches on a self-guided audio tour. Visit famed arches like Delicate Arch, Landscape Arch, Double O Arch, and more! It’s your personal tour guide, in an app! You get all the benefits of a guided tour with the freedom to explore on your own terms. Here’s how it works - the app uses GPS to give you directions to popular stops in the park. Along the way, we’ll share stories about the places you’re visiting, give you important travel tips, and play music to keep you entertained the entire time. *Download the Shaka Guide app to access your purchased tours.*

Meeting and Pickup

Meeting point

We'll provide driving directions to the tour starting point in the app. Just download the tour before you go and select the starting point.

Language Offered

English-AUDIO

Itinerary

1. Arches National Park
Arches National Park’s 76,000 acres are home to the highest concentration of natural stone arches in the world, over 2,000, including America’s longest arch, Landscape Arch. The park attracts over 1.7 million visitors a year and once you see it for yourself, it’ll be easy to see why.
Duration: 120 mins
2. Arches Visitor Center
The Visitor Center has necessities like water, snacks, and restrooms. This is a good place to fill up your water and purchase a few snacks. There is no other place in the park that sells food and the only other place that has drinking water is all the way at the end of the road at Devils Garden.
Duration: 20 mins
3. Moab Fault Overlook
At the Moab Fault viewpoint, you can see the result of enormous pressure that separated the area of the viewpoint with the cliff wall on the other side of the canyon.
Duration: 20 mins
4. Park Avenue Trail
City folks say you get the same feeling standing among the rock formations in Park Avenue that you do standing next to the towering skyscrapers in New York city.
Duration: 20 mins
5. La Sal Mountains Viewpoint
La Sal means the salt in Spanish. The mountains got their name in 1776 when Spanish explorers thought the snowy peaks looked like giant piles of salt. The highest peak, Mount Peale, is over 12,000 feet around 3,600 meters high
Duration: 20 mins
6. Courthouse Towers
Here you’ll find a series of huge sandstone rock formations like the Three Gossips, The Organ, and Sheep Rock.
Duration: 20 mins
7. Petrified Dunes Viewpoint
This is a vast landscape of these sort of lumpy rock formations. It may not look like it at first, but they are actually sand dunes, like on the Sahara. More specifically though, these are petrified sand dunes, meaning that the sand actually solidified into rock around 200 million years ago.
Duration: 20 mins
8. Balanced Rock Trail
Balanced Rock stands over 120 feet or 11 stories tall. This giant Hoodoo has a ball on top that appears to be perfectly balanced on the spire below.
Duration: 20 mins
9. The Windows Road
This area features more than 30 different magnificent arches including The Windows, Turret Arch, and Double Arch, which was featured in the opening scenes of Indian Jones and the Last Crusade.
Duration: 20 mins
10. Garden of Eden
The Garden of Eden is a great place to wander around. This is an open terrain dotted with fins, windows, and miniature arches, or even arches still being formed. There's no designated trail so be sure you watch your step for any biocrust. You can find the owl rock just a short distance from the parking lot.
Duration: 20 mins
11. Pothole Arch
Pothole arch is unlike the rest of the arches you’ll see on the tour because, while those arches are vertical, this arch is horizontal.
Duration: 20 mins
12. Panorama Point
From this high vantage point, you can see for miles and miles in several directions. To the north is Devil's Garden and the Fiery Furnace. To the south you can see Elephant Butte, the highest point in the park at 5,600 feet.
Duration: 20 mins
13. Delicate Arch
This is probably the most famous Arch in Arches National Park. In fact, it’s on the Utah state license plate! While Delicate Arch is certainly not one of the tallest in the park, this iconic formation has a special charm that has attracted people from all over the world.
Duration: 20 mins
14. Delicate Arch Viewpoint
If you don’t have time or don’t have a reservation to make the three-mile hike to Delicate Arch, you can still see the arch from two viewpoints. The trail to the lower viewpoint is just a short 100-foot walk from the parking lot. The second trail is to the upper viewpoint, about a half mile round trip.
Duration: 20 mins
15. Salt Valley Overlook
The Salt Valley was once called the paradox formation because early geologists couldn’t determine how it was created. It’s a good thing you’ve got Shaka Guide to make everything clear.
Duration: 20 mins
16. Fiery Furnace
This place got its name because the rocks here glow as if they're on fire when the sun is at the right angle. There is a permit-only hike through the Fiery Furnace but permits are limited and must be reserved online. We don’t recommend the hike on our tour due to its difficulty, but if you really want to hike it, you can make a reservation here.
Duration: 20 mins
17. Sand Dune Arch Trail
Here you can walk a short distance to visit Sand Dune Arch, which includes a sort of sand pit that children of all ages like to play in. There’s a two-mile hike to Broken Arch and a rough road that will take you further to Tower Arch.
Duration: 20 mins
18. Skyline Arch
This large arch sits just above the horizon framing the sky as a wonderful window arch. No hiking is required, but if you want, just 10 minutes on foot will get you up close to the arch.
Duration: 20 mins
19. Devils Garden
Walk around and check out the arches. The hike is short - about two miles - and it's well-worth it. You'll also find picnic tables and a restroom if you want to relax for a while. ​​The most famous formation at the Devils Garden Trail is definitely the Landscape Arch, the longest arch in North America.
Duration: 20 mins

Inclusion

Tours NEVER expire

Freedom to explore at your own pace - pick the stops you want, skip the ones you don't

Offline map (map and GPS work completely offline - no wifi or data needed)

Tour highlights with activity and restaurant recommendations

Hours of audio narration with stories, travel tips and music - plays automatically as you drive

Turn-by-turn directions using GPS

Exclusion

Entry fees

Rental car

Meals & Refreshments

Cancellation Policy

Check mark icon Refundable tickets

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

  • 100% refund if cancelled 1+ days before the start date
  • 0% refund if cancelled less than 1 day(s) before the start date

Additional Info

Wheelchair accessible

Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller

Service animals allowed

Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Travelers must have a smartphone compatible with the Shaka Guide app.

The app must be downloaded and the tour redeemed before arrival.

Strong Wi-Fi or cellular data is required to download the tour in advance.

Location services (GPS) must be enabled on the device

Travelers are responsible for securing any required entrance passes, reservations, or permits before starting

No advance reservations needed as of 2026 — arrive before crowds (early morning or after 4 p.m.)

Tour takes 4–6+ hours depending on how many hikes you do

Two starting points on Highway 191 — one north, one south of the entrance

Entrance fee: $30/vehicle, valid for 7 days

Park is open 24 hours; Visitor Center hours vary by season (7:30 a.m.–6 p.m. in summer, 9 a.m.–4 p.m. in winter)

No cell service or public Wi-Fi — download the tour on Wi-Fi before leaving your hotel

All Shaka Guide tour roads are 2WD-friendly; some park roads require 4WD/high clearance

Water is only available at the Visitor Center and Devil's Garden Campground — plan ahead

Picnic area near Devil's Garden if you want to pack a lunch ••••••

Supplied by Shaka Guide Apps

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