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Epic Cathedral Valley in Capitol Reef National Park is one of my most memorable experiences while visiting our national parks ...
TORREY, Utah — The first time I visited Utah’s Capitol Reef National Park, I entered through the back door. It happened decades ago when I was vagabonding through the West in a beat-up VW ...
These Striking Rock Formations Are up to 270 Million Years Old. Capitol Reef National Park is a place of dramatic beauty and serenity so remote that the nearest traffic light is 78 miles away.
Bryce Canyon National Park is 120 miles southwest of Capitol Reef, and the whimsical hoodoos of Goblin Valley State Park are 68 miles northeast via Highway 24. Unlock science-backed answers to ...
Capitol Reef was granted national park status in 1971, making it one of the country’s youngest. In the late 1800s, Mormon polygamist families established the community of Fruita, which is now ...
One of Capitol Reef’s most topographically diverse hikes wanders through a landscape of contrasts from high and wide-open to a slot inside the earth. The stem-and-loop incorporates four elements ...
CAPITOL REEF NATIONAL PARK, Utah — The Cathedral Valley (Caineville Wash) Road is nearly impassable due to large areas of sand. A tweet from Capitol Reef National Park advises visitors to use ...
Capitol Reef National Park greets visitors with stunning monoliths rising from the desert floor, sheer cliffs and colorful sandstone. And best yet? Fewer crowds than many of Utah's other national ...
Capitol Reef National Park, A 100-mile-long, skinny strip of land, Capitol Reef National Park runs from the Cathedral Valley area—not too far south of I-70—all the way down close to the shores ...
A towering redrock monolith in southern Utah’s Cathedral Valley was damaged last week by vandals who etched a drawing of an eye into the sandstone so deeply that national park officials say they ...