TOWER ARCH, on Klondike Bluffs, viewed eastward. Arch is in Slick Rock Member but tower on left, after which arch was named, is capped by a protective layer of the resistant Moab Member. Opening is 88 feet wide and 43 feet high. Photograph by Robert D. Miller. (Fig. 47)
SKYLINE ARCH, viewed north from point about 100 feet north of stop 24, in Slick Rock Member. Although fins are vertical, note that the strata seem to dip about 15° to the right, although the actual dip is to the northeast. (See [fig. 50].) (Fig. 48)
Another half mile brings us to a one-way (to right) loop at the end of the park road. Just beyond the beginning of the loop is a parking lot and very attractive picnic area containing several picnic tables shaded by piñon pines at the foot of a towering red fin of the Slick Rock Member. Just north of this picnic ground, a paved side road leads eastward into a truly beautiful, well-equipped campground comprising both back-in and drive-through campsites for trailers, campers, or tents; three pairs of modern restrooms, hydrants, and drinking fountains; and an amphitheater, where illustrated campfire talks are given nightly during the summer. The east end of the campground is shown in [figure 49].
CAMPGROUND IN DEVILS GARDEN, viewed northwestward across turn-around at southeastern end. (Fig. 49)
Devils Garden in general and the campground in particular are on the crest of a ridge separating Salt Valley to the southwest from the Sagers Wash syncline to the northeast, which lies north of Yellow Cat Flat and north of the area shown in [figure 1]. From the higher parts of the campground striking views are to be had toward the north and northeast, particularly late in the afternoon, as shown in [figure 50].
VIEW NORTH FROM CAMPGROUND, in late afternoon. Reddish Slick Rock Member capped by light-colored Moab Member are seen dipping northeastward toward Sagers Wash syncline. Book Cliffs, north of Thompson, are 16 miles north on left skyline. (Fig. 50)
In about the middle of the one-way loop at the end of the park road is a well that supplies water to the campground from early in the spring until the return of freezing weather late in the fall. The well, which was drilled in 1962 to a depth of 900 feet, obtains a small amount of water from the Wingate Sandstone. No water was found in the overlying Navajo and Entrada Sandstones because of the pronounced dip of the rocks toward the northeast, which allows any water in these rocks to drain northeastward (Ted Arnow, written commun., 1963). Water from this well is pumped to a steel tank in a high part of the campground, whence it flows by gravity to the three sets of restrooms.