Eye of the Whale

Fun, sandy, easy trail with great scenery!

Truly beautiful and interesting drive. Already looking forward to doing it again.

Fun trail in Arches, easiest to run north to south as you go down more obstacles than up including a healthy rock slide. Had a lot of fun on this trail although we didn't realize how long it was and started pushing it being end of day.

This trail has really seen more use over the years, particularly the section from the park to the actual arch. Be sure to soak up the view of the various rock formations as you drive it as depicted here.

This is a really fun trail in Arches! Lots of fun sections and amazing scenery. A stock 4wd vehicle will have a challenge, but nothing too bad. Great trail if you are in Arches and you are trying to get out for some wheeling.

Great trail. Had some cool obstacles and sights. Took us about 2 hours to complete. Ran this from tower arch.

This is a fun enough trail. Especially coming off Tower Arch, this is a nice side trail with a couple small obstacles.

Nice trial. Pretty easy, but still fun. Took us about 1.5 hours straight through from North to South, but we didn't do much stopping. There are only a few challenging spots in this trail, and there are multiple lines at each obstacle. The trail gives a good view of the La Sal mountains and the scenery is great as the trail goes though rocks, washes, and a lot of sand. I would recommend having the ability to air down (and air up) your tires. We ran about 18psi on our 32" tires on the whole trail and it made a lot of difference in the sandy wash area. You may be ok without that, but make sure to keep you speed up while running through the sand!

We did this with our long bed extended cab Chevy. No issues with any part of the trail. I'm sure that could change depending on conditions. Mostly the sand could get bad. Most of this trail, I'd say 90% or more, is just nice smooth soft sand. We did this at the end of a loop starting with the Klondike, Klondike Escape and tower arch. This made for a nice calm drive back to pavement with the interesting Eye of the Whale arch near the end of it.

This was a really cool trail. Combined it with Tower Arch, and Klondike Bluffs to make a full-ish day. Although it was easy, it was very enjoyable. The arch is cool and the sand is very soft. Don't forget to air down!

Had a blast running Eye of the Whale with daughter and friends from Colorado and Utah. I have been to Tower Arch before but was not aware of Eye of the Whale. This, combined with Klondike Bluffs and the KB Escape will be included on future Moab visits. These are such beautiful roads and scenery!