Reservations to visit Arches NP?

[Iceaxe]

It appears we will soon need a permit to Arches NP in order to pick up our permit to go canyoneering.....

Reservation needed? Jammed highway lights fire under Arches controversy

http://www.ksl.com/index.php?sid=34880651&nid=1070

[Scott P]

We drove through Moab to get to Cedar Mesa the Friday before Memorial Day and it was a traffic jam going through Moab.

What's weird was Cedar Mesa was surprisingly empty. We didn't go somewhere unknown either; we went to Grand Gulch.

Anyway, I think one reason Moab was so crowded is that some of the normal weekend hot spots were closed because of rain or snow (especially in places like Colorado), so many people went to Moab.

[moab mark]

They are lined up out to the highway today. Lot of people in town.