"In the government truck I make a final tour of the park. East past the Balanced Rock to Double Arch and the Windows... past Tunnel Arch, Pine Tree Arch, Landscape Arch, Partition Arch, Navajo Arch, and Wall Arch..." (Abbey, 267)
"Wall Arch, located along the popular Devil's Gardens Trail at Arches National Park collapsed sometime during the night of August 4, 2008. Rock has continued to fall from the arms of the remaining arch, necessitating the closure of the Devil's Garden Trail just beyond Landscape Arch.
On August 7, 2008 representatives of both the National Park Service Geologic Resources Division and the Utah Geological Survey visited the site and noted obvious stress fractures in the remaining formation.
First reported and named by Lewis T. McKinney in 1948, Wall Arch was a freestanding arch in the Slickrock member of Entrada sandstone. The openning beneath the span was 71-feet wide and 33-1/2-feet high. It ranked 12th in size among the over 2,000 known arches in the park. "
-nps.gov/arch/parknews
"You're holding a tombstone in your hands. A bloody rock." (Abbey, xiv)
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