We're headed out that way as I type on this A/A flight to our stopover in Dallas. Never having been out to this area in the summer, please fill us in on what there is to do and see?
Visited the Arches National Park yesterday, and my wife took hundreds of photos. Everywhere one goes around Moab provides spectacular scenery! Road and mountain biking available on many trails in the area.
Moab has among the best mountain biking on the planet because of slickrock - that grippy (not slick) undulating rock that allows you to hold on steep terrain almost like a terrain park. Some of the trails are pretty technical so be careful. Breathtaking scenery. You can ride for hundreds of miles in the region.
Spectacular scenery everywhere one looks in and around Moab. My biking buddy was a road biker, so I rented a road bike to ride with him on the paved trails. Here are a couple of beauties that we took while driving through Arches National Park -