Arches National Park Hat

Arches National Park Hat Inspiration

From the end of the winding three mile Delicate Arch Trail in Moab, Utah, you can find the inspiration for this Arches National Park hat. With a mix of flora and fauna from the prickly pear cacti and their yellow blooms to the yucca (the spiky one and a member of the agave family) and the curvy juniper trees, to the turkey vultures soaring overhead, the desert is teaming with more life than you might expect.

The red sandstone of Delicate Arch stands 65 feet in the air towering over one of the many bowls throughout this park caused by erosion. Both framed against the La Sal Mountains and their snow capped peaks in the background, providing a truly striking contrast to the desert in front of you.

Design Process

Creating these National Park hats with their panoramic embroidery is a detailed process going beyond simply buying and reselling bulk hats. There are no logos and no branding on any of our hats, just National Parks, from a small company in Seattle, Washington.

The first step is having gone to every park we feature, and we have! Then we try to find the specific viewpoint we want to show off in the park and how creative we need to be with that design to capture the feeling of being there. Sometimes we have to ad-lib a bit of our design to include the feeling of the park as a whole, but we try hard to highlight a place in the park you can actually visit.

Then we get to designing! Embroidery is naturally limited in colors and we use a 15 color (the most you'll find) edgeless embroidery process which takes about 90 minutes and over 60,000 stitches per hat, but allows us to show off those flowers and that running water in your favorite park.

Finally the design get digitized for embroidery, a sample is made for any final tweaks, and we go to production getting these fantastic hats on your heads.

And 100% of our profits are donated right back to our National Parks.