Woman’s body found in UT’s Arches National Park: Officials

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Delicate Arch was spotted in Arches National Park in 2021 near Moab, Utah. A woman’s body was found Saturday, Oct. 1, in the Devil’s Garden area of ​​Utah’s Arches National Park, officials said.

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Rangers have discovered the body of a woman in the popular Devil’s Garden section of Utah’s Arches National Park, the park service said.

The woman’s body was found around 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1, rangers said in a news release.

She has not been identified and the cause of death has not been released, rangers said. The body was turned over to the Utah Medical Examiner’s Office.

The Grand County Sheriff’s Office in Colorado is assisting with the investigation.

Arches National Park, near Moab in southeastern Utah, covers 119 square miles and receives more than 1.5 million visitors per year.

The The territory of the Devil’s Garden “arches, spiers and a large concentration of narrow stone walls called ‘fins,'” park officials said. It is “one of the main places in the park”.

Don Sweeney was a newspaper reporter and editor in California for over 25 years. He has been a real-time reporter for The Sacramento Bee since 2016.