Capitol Reef and Arches National Parks

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 Capitol Reef and Arches National Parks


Capitol Reef was a hiking stop along the way from Zion to our next campsite at Arches National Park. We drove the road that transects the park from west to east, and took in petroglyphs, and the Fruita historic district (a Mormon settlement). We took one long hike into the interior, but as it was getting hot we decided to return to our car and head up to Arches. 


There we set up camp at a ridge-top site from which you could see for miles across the high desert. Hiking trails in this park took us to many of the huge sandstone arches for which it is named, but nowhere near the over 2000 of them here. Some highlights were the 306-feet long Landscape Arch, Delicate Arch on the rim of a canyon with snow-capped mountains in the distance, and Balanced Rock, a hoodoo-like tower capped by a huge boulder. Arches National Park is one of our favorites. It rocks!  

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