Things To Do In Moab

Where to Go in Moab, Utah & Places to See in the Arches National Park Recreation Area
Courtesy of Arches Repair Center. @archesrepairctr

Welcome to the Arches National Park and Moab, Utah recreation areas!

Here you will find some of the most beautiful outdoors camping, desert hiking, mountain biking and river rafting territory in the Canyonlands of Utah.

Moab, Utah Website Map Pics More Pics Webcams
Arches National Park Recreation Area Map Link Pics

Moab Hotel, Motel Condos, B&B

Moab Utah - Outdoors Adventures
Here are some of fun things to do in the Moab, Utah area.

Camping and Camp Grounds
KOA
Spanish Trails
RV
Moab Valley RV
Flickrock Campground
Canyon Lands Campground

Hikes and Hiking
Discover Moab Hiking
Hiking Moab, Utah

Mountain Biking
Mountain Biking Trails and Information
2011 Suffer & Send It Saturday Race Series
24 Hours of Moab Bike Race
Behind the Rocks - Bike Trail
Slickrock Bike Trail - Moab, Utah Map
Moab Mountain Unicycling Festival Map Video

Bike Shops and Mountain Bike Gear
Uranium Bicycle - Marshall and Christie run Uranium Bicycle. They are really geared towards the biking community.
Chili Pepper Bike Shops
Poison Spider Bicycle
Rim Cyclery

Jeeping - Yep! Four Wheels are here!
Whether you go off road or trail driving, you need different outfitting to make a successful trip over some large rock at times. Depending on what trails you go on, differential lockers. There are many different places that rent Jeeps in Moab, Utah. Some rent basic Jeeps, other supped-up Jeeps that are tricked out for some of the hardest of Moab trails.

Jeep Safari - All these jeepers come. Moab is full of jeeps and Four Wheel drive vehicles the whole week before Easter. Go on trail rides daily. Jeeping and four wheeling. Dirt spitting nobbies and fun fun fun.

How to Choose a Suitable Jeep for Jeeping and Four Wheeling
1. The capability of the jeep that you are selecting compared to the trail you are going on.
2. Get a jeep with front and rear lockers (locks up the differential so that both wheels rotate at the same time. It synchronizes the wheels so they spin together giving you coordinated power.), high clearance (maybe 24 inch clearance)

For major work altercations on your Jeep like heavier duty springs and shocks, adding lockers, lifting suspensions, or fabrications, try 4x4 Outpost in Moab, Utah. And for good knobby tires (the knobs are far apart from each other to provide better grip in slick rock and sand, try Chip's Grand Tire of Moab, Utah.

River Rafting The Colorado River and The Green River
The Colorado River and Cataract Canyon has different put-ins for differing levels of difficulty

The Green River
Check out Canyon Voyages Adventure Company's raft trips, they have a good store for outdoors activities and adventure gear.

Moab Rock Climbing and Canyoneering
Moab Adventure Center (a good resource)
Google Search: Moab Rock Climbing and Canyoneering

State Parks and Recreation Areas
Arches National Park is right here in Moab, Utah just 5 miles from town. You can go into it anytime. Tom Till is our local famous photographer here in Moab. He has some wonderful photographs of some of the most beautiful points of view here inside Arches National Park.

Canyon Lands National Park, Canyon Lands is huge. It goes North to Dead Horse Point State Park about 10 miles out and 33 miles up the grade, and goes 40 miles South and 30 miles West of Moab. There is a lot of camping, hiking, steep trails. You'll really enjoy it.

Dead Horse Point, This is up very high. You can actually see the confluence where the Green River and the Colorado River meet. It's at the very top of Canyon Lands National Park.

Castle Valley, Utah. About 25 miles East of Moab out the Colorado Rd. Castle Valley is east of Moab. Take SR 128 along the Colorado River for 17 miles from Moab, and then go South another few miles you drop into another valley called Castle Valley. The formation Castle Rock and The Priest and The Nuns rise out of the ground. It also has a majestic mountain, Round Mountain at the very end of the valley. The view from on top of Castle Valley is incredible. You can see The Priest and The Nuns way up high.

Moab, Utah - Night Life & Entertainment

Bars & Moab Night Life
Moab Brewery, they brew their own beer and its pretty darn good. Brew pub and restaurant and bar, 10-7 Monday thru Saturday. Closed on Sundays.

The Rio, has good pool tables and they have a DJ Friday and Saturday nights, sometimes live music bands too.

Frankie D's, they have good food and a DJ or live band weekends.

Live Music in Moab
Desert Rocks
The Grotto Music Festival and the Grotto Amphitheatre.

Music Festivals and Musical Events in Moab, Utah
Moab Folk festival
Moab Art Festival
Moab Music Festival - this is a big music show.

Movies / Film / Cinema
Slick Rock Cinema - for latest movies and great pop corn too! The City of Moab has 4,500 people and Grand county has 8,500 people. Here in the winter time the Slick Rock Cinema is a hot happening place.

Festivals, Races, Shows
Car Show - The weekend after Easter brings some hot hot rods to Moab, Utah. A lot of hot rods, old classic cars, mostly custom and antiques. Seeing all these hot rods is real neat. The cars parade up and down Main Street here in Moab, especially Friday and Saturday night, to watch some fine machines cruising. Everyone has their chairs out on the street, cars will be lighting the tires up and shining some chrome.

Running Races - Marathon, Triathlon in Moab, Utah
The Moab, Utah Half Marathon
XTERA Moab Triathalon Festival
Red Rock Relay Moab
Winter Sun 10K Run

Moab, Utah Paleontology and Museums
Dan O'Laurie Museum of Moab Features the history of local mining.
Yellow Cat Canyon
Dinosaur Bones
Museum of Moab

Utah State Parks and National Parks in the Moab, Utah Area
Arches National Park: Website Local Info Facts Map
Canyon Lands National Park: Website Local Info Map
Dead Horse Point State Park: Website Local Info Facts Maps
Double Arch / Delicate Arch: Facts
Canyonlands National Park: Website Facts Map
Cataract Canyon: Website Facts
Colorado River: Local Info Facts
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area: Website Local Info Facts Pics
Grand Canyon: Website Facts
Green River State Park: Website Info Maps

Cities, Towns, Ghost Towns near Moab, Utah
City of Moab: Website Maps Facts Webcams
Cisco, Utah (Ghost Town): Facts History Maps
Dewey, Utah (Old Ghost Town): Facts
Thompson Springs, Utah: Facts Map
Crescent Junction, Utah: Facts Pics
Green River, Utah: Website Local Info Map Facts Pics
Town of Castle Valley, Utah: Website Facts Pics