Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Capitol Reef

We arrived in the Capitol Reef area on Friday, May 29.  On Saturday, we took a ten mile scenic drive up the park to the Capitol Gorge trail.   The trail was an old, narrow wagon road that passed through a slot canyon with vertical walls on both sides.   On the way in, we saw on the walls petroglyphs and the pioneer signatures and dates.  After walking about 1 mile, we took a side trail half-way up a side canyon to a place called The Tanks, a series of natural pools running down that canyon.  

Capitol Reef from the motorcycle
 
Old wagon road, Capitol Gorge Trail
 
 
Series of "Tanks"
 
 
 
 
 
Cactus Bloom along the trail

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