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Cobra Arch is located on the high ground north of Buckskin Gulch, in Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Utah. After a drive on rough dirt roads, it's about a 2 mile hike (or longer) to the arch. It's best to have a GPS map on your phone, because the trail markings are ambiguous. You don't see the arch until you have passed it.

The name comes perhaps from the view looking up the arch head-on, where there might be some semblance to the Asian snake. In the view shown here, with some imagination you can see another snake, its body coming from beneath the arch and its head just above the blooming cactus.

The hike takes longer than you might imagine due to the rough terrain and lack of an established trail in some places. There's a fairly steep decline about halfway in and a steep incline on return. I took this hike a year ago and made it with little difficulty. This year, I had to take many rest stops along the return. It was very hard. Embarrassingly hard. Turning 80 is no joke! I was glad to have my friend and hiking buddy, Federica, with me.
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Author John Fowler from Placitas, NM, USA
Camera location37° 01′ 14.86″ N, 111° 53′ 44.24″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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Cobra Arch, north of Buckskin Gulch, Vermilion Cliffs National Monument

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