Capital Reef National Park is an interesting park. If you are playing the tourist and your wheels never leave paved roads, you will drive into the park on Utah state road 24, visit Fruita and the area around the visitor center. You may even stop to hike a few of the established trails. It is […]
RV to Capitol Reef
My wife and I decided to drag our travel trailer down to Capitol Reef National Park for a few days. We just needed to get out of town and see what Spring had brought us. The first night we stayed in a trailer campground in Torrey. That gave me a chance to explore the backroads […]
North Capitol Reef NP Drive Through
It was the end of January and warmer than a Utah winter had a right to be. No snow in the valleys and not much in the mountains. I took the opportunity to drive down to Emery Utah and then south crossing I-70 Interstate where I picked up the dirt road heading south through North […]
Sheets Draw Arch – Strike Two
David and I headed back to Sheets Draw in southern Capital Reef National Park for try number two to find Sheets Draw Arch. We parked at the east end of several canyons that run to the west. We are hoping one of these unnamed canyons will let us access Sheets Draw where we hope to […]
Family Arch Hunt
Just for a change, I go Arch Hunting with wife Nancy, brother David and daughters Chonsie and Shantisha. While David is my usual hiking companion, every now and then other members of my family want to go. (They usually go with me once, remember why they don’t go more often and then don’t want to […]