Capitol Reef

Saturday saw us making the brief journey from Escalante National Monument to Capitol Reef National Park. We were totally unfamiliar with this site until we began planning the trip and Sharon's brother, Larry, said we had to see it. He was right.

As you can see, the scenery in both areas is spectacular.

We reached Capitol Reef at mid-day and stopped off at a surprisingly crowded visitor center. There we got maps and decided to visit Gifford House, known for its homemade fruit pies which were remarkably good. Sharon had cherry, I had peach. After “lunch” we drove out along the paved portion of the ten mile Scenic Drive, the backbone, so to speak, of Capitol Reef, and on the way back took a couple of short walks out to Panorama Point and along the Sunset Point Trail. 

Rosa points the way

The plan for Sunday was to walk the slightly longer Capitol Gorge Trail.