After our visit to Bryce Canyon and staying for the night in Escalante, UT we continue our way to some other great National Parks. We follow the Grand Staircase Escalante (Escalante Canyons Unit) on the north side to pass through Boulder Town, UT and enter again the Dixie Nat'l Forest.
Breakfast at Little Bone at Hell's Backbone Grill, Boulder, UT
Near Torrey, UT we leave SR-12 and turn onto SR-24 which brings us into Capitol Reef Nat'l Park. This park once again is a different landscape and scenery as the parks we visited before, the spectacular canyons and hoodoos are not there, but the red rock and shapes are not less stunning. We pass the Twin Rocks just after the park sign, pass the Fluted Wall and make a stop at the Petroglyph Panels.
Entering Capitol Reef, Fluted Wall (left pic.)
Twin Rocks, Fluted Wall
Chimney Rock, Front and East Side
You need to have good eyes to see the pictures carved by the indigenous Fremont and Ancestral Pueblo people.
Petroglyph Panel(s)
We continue to the next stop, and make the hike to the Hickman Natural Bridge. What a stupid idea to make that hike in the midday heat, but it was worth all the sweat. A great natural bridge and a nice view from the rim up there.
Hickman Bridge, worth the climb
Back at the car and a bottle of water later we continue our way to Caineville and Hanksville, UT before turning North to catch I-70 East to the turn-off to Moab, UT.
Behunin Cabin, Elijah Cutler Behunin Familie (only 11 of their 13 children in picture), the first homesteader in the Capitol Reef at Fremont River and Sulfur Creek 1883-1884
Leaving Capitol Reef and entering Desolation and Grey Canyons
With Arches N.P. to our left and Glen Canyon N.R.A. to our left we enter Moab, UT, our base for the next couple of days.
"... as fas as the Eye can see a naked barren plain of red and white Sandstone crossed in all directions by innumerable gorges ..." - Adjutant Franklin B. Woolley on Capitol Reef during the Captain James Andrus Expedition 1866
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