Hi, my name is Adam and I’m addicted to hunting for natural arches. At this point you could probably classify it as a sickness more than anything. So imagine angst I felt at the start of December planning a my first trip to Joshua Tree National Park in California when I came across an arch called Ojo Oro that I could only find a small handful of people talking about online.

I spent some time looking for a location for this mysterious little arch, but came up empty handed. Still, I had to see it. I would see it.

This is the story of my off-trail hunt for Ojo Oro Arch.

There is a surprising amount of disagreement over how big a hole needs to be to qualify as an arch. This post explores how I classify what is and isn't considered a natural arch.

There is no one good resource available for finding arch data. This post explores what exactly I mean when I talk about "Arch Data" and some of the resources I've found over the years for obtaining this data.

Leapfrog 2 Arch is an arch that, to the best of my knowledge, had never been properly documented until I took this image. The arch is located on a shelf about 15-20 feet up the cliffside. There really isn’t a great way to get up to the top of it, so I ended up having to improvise a bit.

A slew of newly (re) discovered arches in the Laurel County portions of the Daniel Boone National Forest were recently submitted to the Kentucky Arch Database. Not only did the locations of these arches need to be confirmed for the sake of the integrity of the database, but there was some discrepancies with the location of one of the submitted natural bridges. I decided to set off into the forest to solve the mystery once and for all!

It’s finally time for another adventure! This time around I decided to get out into the Gorge to enjoy some of the fall colors and to hunt for some new to me arches.

Kentucky is just packed full of natural arches. In fact, it’s ranked either second or third in the United States for the most natural arches. We are behind only Utah and possibly Arizona. East of the Mississippi, however, we are ranked number one! 

Visitors to Kentucky’s Red River Gorge know that, at this point, there are very few truly hidden spots left in the area. There are some, however, and Sky View Arch is one of them.