“The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness.”- Psalm 72:3
Capitol Reef National Park has a lot to compete with in Zion and Bryce, but it does have its own impressive rock formations. There is primarily one road through the park from which there are a few hiking trails. We hiked down part of a trail toward a natural bridge, but it was so hot, as well as getting late in the day, that we decided to only go about halfway before turning around. The trail followed the Fremont River, and the walk was not very difficult (at least the part we were on), so we did enjoy the part we did hike.
As we continued to drive through the park, we stopped to view some petroglyphs. While we coudn’t go up to them, we could view them from a specified site, and they were easily visible.
“Petroglyphs”
As we drove the expanse of the park, we saw a few more large rock formations, but nothing quite as majestic as Zion or Bryce. At the end of the park road, we had to turn around and go back along then headed back down the same road to get home. We could have continued in the original direction, but it would have added quite a few more hours to get back to our campground in Hurricane, Utah. As it was, we would be driving for about 12 hours total this particular day.
