Capitol Reef National Park 3-minute Tour
Capitol Reef National Park in Utah is a little-known gem of the national park service. This is the heart of the Canyon Country - red rock cliffs and giant geological formations like the water-pocket fold, the Capitol Dome for which the park is named, and the historic Morman town of Fruita.
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Driving the Burr Trail Road to Notom - Grand Staircase Escalante NM and Capitol Reef NP
In this video I drive from Boulder, UT, along the Scenic Hwy 12, down the Burr Trail Road to the Burr Trail Switchbacks, then down to the Notom-Bullfrog Road, and head north to Notom on the eastern side of Capitol Reef National Park.
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Notom Burr Trail Road in
the southern section of the Park.
Plan for up to two hours
of drive time one-way.
Notom-Bullfrog Road
The Notom-Bullfrog road intersects Utah
Hwy 24 nine miles (14.4 km) east
of the Capitol Reef Visitor Center
and extends south to Bullfrog Marina
and Glen Canyon National
Recreation Area.
This road is paved for the first 10 miles
(16.1 km), and then becomes a well
maintained dirt road.
The road runs along the eastern
side of the Waterpocket Fold and offers
excellent scenery a
Notom, UT
USA
THE NOTOM
area was originally settled in 1883
and, at its largest population, was
once inhabited by 23 families.
Today Notom is the jumping off point
for exploration of the eastern edge of
Capitol Reef National Park
and is home to the Sunlit Oasis.
The Notom Road Scenic Backway
leads from Highway 24, along the
east side of Capitol Reef National Park
to the junction ofnd hiking opportunities.
Access to many of the
park's backcountry trails, such as
Lower Muley Twist and Halls Creek
Narrows can be found off this road.
While portions of the road outside the
park are paved, the majority of the
Notom-Bullfrog road is dirt and subject to
changes in weather conditions.
Visitors are advised to check with the
visitor center before driving
any of the dirt roads.
Notom Road
Detailed Trail Description from
our Guidebook
This easygoing route passes through
the old town site of Notom and across
the Sandy Creek Benches to travel along
inside the Waterpocket Fold in
Capitol Reef National Park.
It is often suitable for passenger cars
in dry weather, but loose sand, bulldust,
and a couple of rough wash
crossings make it preferable to
have a high-clearance vehicle.
Special Attractions:
Old town site of Notom;
Views of the Waterpocket Fold and
Oyster Shell Reef within
Capitol Reef National Park.
High clearance vehicles are preferred,
but not necessary.
This trail is dirt roads, but may have
rocks, grades, water crossings, or
ruts that make clearance a concern in
a normal passenger vehicle.
The trail is fairly wide, so that passing
is possible at almost any point along
the trail.
Mud is not a concern under
normal weather conditions.
CAPITOL REEF
The most scenic portion
of the Waterpocket Fold,
found near the
Fremont River, is known as
Capitol Reef:
capitol for the white domes of
Navajo Sandstone that resemble
capitol building domes,
and reef for the rocky
cliffs which are a barrier
to travel, like a coral reef.
The geologic story of Capitol Reef
can be broken down into three steps,
each of which occurred over millions
of years of geologic time:
deposition, uplift, and erosion.
The area of Capitol Reef
has been a homeland
to people for thousands of years.
Archaic hunters and gatherers migrated
through the canyons.
Fremont Culture solidified around
500 CE, from food foraging groups,
to farmers of corn, beans and squash.
Petroglyphs etched in rock walls
and painted pictographs remain as
sacred remnants of the
ancient Indians' saga. Explorers,
Mormon pioneers and others
arrived in the 1800s, settling in what
is now the Fruita Rural Historic District.
They planted and nurtured orchards
of apples, pears, and peaches.
The National Park Service preserves
the stories of those who came before.
Discover the Waterpocket Fold,
a geologic wrinkle on earth!
Located in south-central Utah
in the heart of red rock country,
Capitol Reef National Park is a
hidden treasure filled with cliffs, canyons,
domes and bridges in the Waterpocket Fold,
a geologic monocline (a wrinkle on the earth)
extending almost 100 miles.
Places To Go
CONTACT THE PARK
Mailing Address:
HC 70, Box 15
Torrey, UT 84775
Phone:
435-425-3791
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Song Motion
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Song Weightless
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Park Service
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Capitol Reef National Park
Notom
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Monocline Explained: Capitol Reef National Park
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CAPITOL REEF National Park - Fruita campground, Capitol Gorge + Cohab Canyon Trail
We just knew we HAD to stop by Capitol Reef on our 2017 road trip!
Was it worth it?
Absolutely!
- Camping at the peaceful Fruita Campground. (***Read below.)
- Historic settlements.
- Massive petroglyph panel.
- Exploring canyons and slot canyons with our kids - CAPITOL GORGE and COHAB CANYON (our absolute favorite!!!).
- One of the best places in the US for star gazing.
- Spectacular scenic drives and hikes.
- Not as crowded as other national parks.
We had a great time in Capitol Reef!
***CORRECTION: As of early 2018, FRUITA CAMPGROUND is NO LONGER on a first-come first-serve basis (which was the case in 2017 when we stayed here). The park has since moved to a reservation system, and as of right now, campsites can be reserved ahead of time from March through October.
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Monocline in Capitol Reef NP
The largest monocline in the country is located here!
Waterpocket Fold at Capitol Reef National Park
An Ariel view of the Waterpocket Fold in Capitol Reef National Park in south-western Utah. Buckling of the rock was created 65 million years ago which later uplifted the Colorado Plateau. The Waterpocket fold is made up of many layers of sedimentary rock.
CAPITOL REEF National Park Torrey, Utah USA Waterpocket Fold Fruita
CAPITOL REEF National Park Torrey, Utah USA Waterpocket Fold Fruita
CAPITOL REEF
National Park
Torrey, UT 84775
USA
CAPITOL REEF
The most scenic portion of the Waterpocket Fold,
found near the Fremont River, is known as
Capitol Reef: capitol for the white domes of
Navajo Sandstone that resemble capitol building domes,
and reef for the rocky cliffs which are a barrier
to travel, like a coral reef.
The geologic story of Capitol Reef
can be broken down into three steps,
each of which occurred over millions
of years of geologic time:
deposition, uplift, and erosion.
The area of Capitol Reef has been a homeland
to people for thousands of years.
Archaic hunters and gatherers migrated
through the canyons.
Fremont Culture solidified around
500 CE, from food foraging groups,
to farmers of corn, beans and squash.
Petroglyphs etched in rock walls
and painted pictographs remain as
sacred remnants of the
ancient Indians' saga. Explorers,
Mormon pioneers and others
arrived in the 1800s, settling in what
is now the Fruita Rural Historic District.
They planted and nurtured orchards
of apples, pears, and peaches.
The National Park Service preserves
the stories of those who came before.
Discover the Waterpocket Fold,
a geologic wrinkle on earth!
Located in south-central Utah
in the heart of red rock country,
Capitol Reef National Park is a
hidden treasure filled with cliffs, canyons,
domes and bridges in the Waterpocket Fold,
a geologic monocline (a wrinkle on the earth)
extending almost 100 miles.
Places To Go
Each district of Capitol Reef offers
different opportunities for
sightseeing and exploration.
The Fruita Area is the most accessible
district, offering views along the paved
Scenic Drive (driving guide available
at the bookstore), several hikes of varying
lengths and difficulty, and access to the
Fruita Historic District, including
the orchards and the
Gifford House Store and Museum.
The Waterpocket District offers amazing
views of the Waterpocket Fold and great
hiking and backpacking
opportunities.
The roads are unpaved, but can normally
be accessed by standard passenger vehicles.
Any precipitation can cause the roads to
become impassable, so check weather
and road conditions at the visitor center
or by calling (435) 425-3791.
Cathedral Valley offers more of a backcountry
experience, usually requiring a high-clearance
vehicle to access the area's attractions.
Any precipitation can cause the roads to
become impassable, so check weather and
road conditions at the visitor center
or by calling (435) 425-3791.
Credit NPS
CONTACT THE PARK
Mailing Address:
HC 70, Box 15
Torrey, UT 84775
Phone:
435-425-3791
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Song Ephemeral
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Artist Ikson
Song Calling
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Artist Ikson
Song Early Hours
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Artist Ikson
Song Anywhere
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Song Blue Lemonade
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Song Stories
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Artist Dan Lebowitz
Song Wishful Thinking
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National Park
Service
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State of Utah
Capitol Reef National Park
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Capitol Reef National Park, Utah, USA
Capitol Reef, Utah, USA june 2012
I 70 though Capitol Reef encompasses the Waterpocket Fold Utah
The members of the Glen Canyon Group were all laid down in the middle to late Triassic during a time of increasing aridity.
Capitol Reef encompasses the Waterpocket Fold, a wrinkle in the earth's crust that is 65 million years old. In this fold, newer and older layers of earth folded over each other in an S-shape. This wrinkle, probably caused by the same colliding continental plates that created the Rocky Mountains, has weathered and eroded over millennia to expose layers of rock and fossils. The park is filled with brilliantly colored sandstone cliffs, gleaming white domes, and contrasting layers of stone and earth.
Capitol Reef and vicinity
Aerial view of Waterpocket Fold
The area was named for a line of white domes and cliffs of Navajo Sandstone, each of which looks somewhat like the United States Capitol building, that run from the Fremont River to Pleasant Creek on the Waterpocket Fold.
The fold forms a north-to-south barrier that even today has barely been breached by roads. Early settlers referred to parallel, impassable ridges as reefs, from which the park gets the second half of its name. The first paved road was constructed through the area in 1962. Today, State Route 24 cuts through the park traveling east and west between Canyonlands National Park and Bryce Canyon National Park, but few other paved roads invade the rugged landscape.
The park is filled with canyons, cliffs, towers, domes, and arches. The Fremont River has cut canyons through parts of the Waterpocket Fold, but most of the park is arid desert country. A scenic drive shows park visitors some of the highlights, but it runs only a few miles from the main highway. Hundreds of miles of trails and unpaved roads lead the more adventurous into the equally scenic backcountry.
CAPITOL REEF NATIONAL PARK - Utah, USA, Travel, 4K Ultra HD
CAPITOL REEF NATIONAL PARK - Utah, USA, Travel, 4K Ultra HD
CAPITOL REEF NATIONAL PARK - 캐피톨 리프 국립공원, 유타, 미국, 여행
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Capitol Reef National Park is an American national park in south-central Utah. The park is approximately 60 miles (97 km) long on its north–south axis and just 6 miles (9.7 km) wide on average. The park was established in 1971 to preserve 241,904 acres (377.98 sq mi; 97,895.08 ha; 978.95 km2) of desert landscape and is open all year, with May through September being the highest visitation months.
Partially in Wayne County, Utah, the area was originally named Wayne Wonderland in the 1920s by local boosters Ephraim P. Pectol and Joseph S. Hickman. Capitol Reef National Park was designated a national monument on August 2, 1937, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to protect the area's colorful canyons, ridges, buttes, and monoliths; however, it was not until 1950 that the area officially opened to the public. Road access was improved in 1962 with the construction of State Route 24 through the Fremont River Canyon.
The majority of the nearly 100 mi (160 km) long up-thrust formation called the Waterpocket Fold—a rocky spine extending from Thousand Lake Mountain to Lake Powell—is preserved within the park. Capitol Reef is an especially rugged and spectacular segment of the Waterpocket Fold by the Fremont River.[4] The park was named for its whitish Navajo Sandstone cliffs with dome formations—similar to the white domes often placed on capitol buildings—that run from the Fremont River to Pleasant Creek on the Waterpocket Fold. Locally, reef refers to any rocky barrier to land travel, just as ocean reefs are barriers to sea travel.
Video of Capitol Reef National Park Dispersed Camping, UT from SwitchbackKids .
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▶︎ Free and easy access to Capitol Reef National Park!
After visiting two very popular Utah parks -- Zion and Bryce Canyon -- Capitol Reef was a breath of fresh air. And one of our favorite parts about visiting this park is that it was almost totally free!
When we arrived at the visitor center, they informed us that their only developed campground, Fruita Campground (first-come-first-served only, not reservable) was full for the night, and rangers were ready with a handout full of alternative camping areas. We had not dabbled into BLM (Bureau of Land Management) camping before, but this experience would encourage us to utilize it throughout the rest of our year-long trip to the national parks.
This “campground” is located about a mile outside of the national park, which allows great access to everything inside Capitol Reef. Usually free camping like this is harder to discover, but this pull-off is just off the road.
Benefits of camping in BLM land include the cost (free!), solitude (you can be as far away from people as you’d like), and easy access to the national park (in fact, most national parks are surrounded with National Forest Service or BLM land!). Downsides, of course, include the lack of amenities, the sometimes uninspiring scenery, and the feeling of uneasiness (can I really just camp here? For free?)
Capitol Reef’s BLM camping is plentiful, but this site was definitely the best. We were able to drive up on a high ridge of the pull-out area that the RVs could not easily access, so we felt alone and watched the g...
Capitol Reef National Park Dispersed Camping:
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Capitol Reef National Park
After visiting Goblin Valley State Park we continued on our journey following Rte 24 through Hanksville to Capitol Reef National Park. Capitol Reef is defined by the Waterpocket Fold, a nearly 100 mile long warp in the earth's crust. The pockets of the Waterpocket Fold are natural basins capable of holding rainwater and snowmelt. It was these waterpockets along the fertile floodplains of the Fremont River that attracted early human settlers. This place is amazing! Don't miss it.
Capitol Reef National Park, Utah. Hickman Bridge - Great Family Hike.
Capitol Reef National Park - Hickman Bridge Hike, Utah. July 5, 2014. Hike to the wonderful Hickman Bridge in the high mountain desert.
Goosenecks Overlook in Capitol Reef National Park
The unifying geographic feature of Capitol Reef is the Waterpocket Fold. For a hundred miles its parallel ridges rise from the desert like the swell of giant waves rolling toward shore. Exposed edges of the uplift have eroded into a slickrock wilderness of massive domes, cliffs, and a maze of twisting canyons.
Geologists know the fold as one of the largest and best exposed monoclines on the North American continent. Travelers know it as a place of dramatic beauty and serenity so remote that the nearest traffic light is 78 miles away. And even though its 378 square miles are off the beaten track, the park still attracts nearly 750,000 visitors each year.
Road Trip@Scenic Drive, Capitol Gorge, Caineville of Capitol Reef National Park
Capitol Reef National Park is a United States National Park, in south-central Utah. The park is approximately 60 miles (97 km) long on its north–south axis but an average of just 6 miles (9.7 km) wide. The park was established in 1971 to preserve 241,904 acres (377.98 sq mi; 97,895.08 ha; 978.95 km2) of desert landscape and is open all year with May through September being the highest visitation months.
Located partially in Wayne County, Utah, the area was originally named Wayne Wonderland in the 1920s by local boosters Ephraim P. Pectol and Joseph S. Hickman.[3] Capitol Reef National Park was initially designated a National Monument on August 2, 1937 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in order to protect the area's colorful canyons, ridges, buttes, and monoliths; however, it was not until 1950 that the area officially opened to the public.[3] Easy road access only came in 1962 with the construction of State Route 24 through the Fremont River Canyon.[4]
The majority of the nearly 100 mi (160 km) long up-thrust formation called the Waterpocket Fold—a rocky spine extending from Thousand Lake Mountain to Lake Powell—is preserved within the park. Capitol Reef is the name of an especially rugged and spectacular segment of the Waterpocket Fold by the Fremont River.[4] The park was named for a line of cliffs of white Navajo Sandstone with dome formations—similar to the white domes often placed on capitol buildings—that run from the Fremont River to Pleasant Creek on the Waterpocket Fold. The local word reef refers to any rocky barrier to land travel, just as ocean reefs are barriers to sea travel.[5][
Capitol Reef 4x4
Capitol Reef National Park and surrounding areas. Cathedral Vally, Fruita, Pleasant Creek, Tantalus Creek, Dixi National Forest, Anasazi State Park, Hell's Back Bone Bridge, Grand Stair Case-Escalante National Monument, Glen Canyon National Recreation area, Bull Frog Utah, and Lake Powell. This trip too place on the weekend of 4/29/16-5/2/16.
Capitol Reef National Park | Geology, scenic drive, hiking
A strange, beautiful landscape of multi-hued rock layers, Capitol Reef National Park lies in the heart of Utah canyon country.
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ABOUT CAPITOL REEF NATIONAL PARK IN UTAH
Capitol Reef National Park is a hidden treasure between Zion/Bryce National Parks and Arches National Park. Capitol Reef is a 100-mile pinch in the earth’s crust in the geographical middle of nowhere, but it’s overloaded with geological, cultural and sensory consequence … tiny cross-section of the spinning rock we’re clinging to. Named for what it looks like (white rock domes like the U.S. Capitol, rocky ridges like marine reefs) — but isn’t — because it wasn’t like anything anyone had ever seen.
There’s the Waterpocket Fold ... a jagged scar where the devil dragged his pitchfork on the way to Las Vegas (a.k.a a monocline — the seam left over when shifting plates lifted one side of a fault 7,000 feet). Spend your brief time absorbing what took 70 million years and two major geologic events to create.
There are red and white rock bands … more virtuosic than Jack White himself. The Waterpocket fold horizontalizes layers of white Navajo Sandstone, red Wingate, shale and pinkish Entrada Sandstone like an entropic chunk of tipped cake. Depending on where you stand, the stripes are half an inch or half a mile wide. (You may find the iron in the red rocks magnetizes your camera lens.)
There are ruined civilizations … both ancient and recent. Fremont Indian rock shelters a mile and a thousand years from Mormon settlers’ cabins. Pictographs and grinding stones in the cliffs, apple orchards and a one-room schoolhouse in Fruita down below. See how earlier Utah people lived and see if they didn’t do a few things better than us.
Narrow rivers cutting gaping Goosenecks. Chimney Rock. Hickman Bridge. Broken towers’ jagged shadows. Look deep into the earth’s time and space from this one little foothold on, say, a Tuesday. Drive, camp and hike. Consider the bighorn sheep. Zoom in. Zoom out.
That’s just a small part of the adventure and beauty you’ll find here in this beautiful National Park Service unit!
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Scenic Byway 24 at Capitol Reef National Park
The unifying geographic feature of Capitol Reef is the Waterpocket Fold. For a hundred miles its parallel ridges rise from the desert like the swell of giant waves rolling toward shore. Exposed edges of the uplift have eroded into a slickrock wilderness of massive domes, cliffs, and a maze of twisting canyons.
Geologists know the fold as one of the largest and best exposed monoclines on the North American continent. Travelers know it as a place of dramatic beauty and serenity so remote that the nearest traffic light is 78 miles away. And even though its 378 square miles are off the beaten track, the park still attracts nearly 750,000 visitors each year.
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Capitol Reef National park, Utah, United States - Chimney rock
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Capitol Reef National Park is a United States National Park, in south-central Utah. It is 100 miles (160 km) long but fairly narrow. The park, established in 1971, preserves 241,904 acres (377.98 sq mi; 97,895.08 ha; 978.95 km2) and is open all year, although May through September are the most popular months.
Called Wayne Wonderland in the 1920s by local boosters Ephraim P. Pectol and Joseph S. Hickman, Capitol Reef National Park protects colorful canyons, ridges, buttes, and monoliths. About 75 mi (121 km) of the long up-thrust called the Waterpocket Fold, a rugged spine extending from Thousand Lake Mountain to Lake Powell, is preserved within the park. Capitol Reef is the name of an especially rugged and spectacular segment of the Waterpocket Fold near the Fremont River. The area was named for a line of white domes and cliffs of Navajo Sandstone, each of which looks somewhat like the United States Capitol building, that run from the Fremont River to Pleasant Creek on the Waterpocket Fold. The local word reef refers to any rocky barrier to travel.Easy road access only came in 1962, with the construction of State Route 24 through the Fremont River Canyon
Capitol Reef Utah