Capitol Reef National Monument, Utah

Capitol Reef National Monument is in Utah and we drove here straight from our trip at Bryce Canyon. We took scenic byway 12 north and it was an awesome drive. When we arrived at Capitol Reef we went directly to the visitors center and then took off in our truck to see the sights. The park is 378 square miles of colorful canyons, ridges, buttes and monoliths. There are also a few petroglythes that have been found.




In the early 1880's settlers moved to the Capitol Reef Country. By 1920 work was hard but life was pretty good. No more than ten families at any given time lived there.

We stopped and got out several times just to look at the scale of the mountains compared to our truck. It was a sight to see - just look at the picture below.




Every where we turned the sight we saw was more awesome than the last. The colors were stupendous.

We took the truck down one of the roads into one of the washes to do a hike. We also saw some of the closed up uranium mines from previous mining throughout the years.

We love to hike whenever we can and as you can see from the pictures above and below, we are having a good time.

See ya down the road !