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I love Capitol Reef and I’ll yell it from the mountain tops. It’s my favorite Utah national park and I think it will be hard to change that.
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I feel like every time I do a new hike at Capitol Reef, it’s my favorite and things were no different on my first visit of the year. Our plan was to drive Cathedral Valley Loop and camp a night out there, but as usual, things changed. Our new plan was to hike Cohab Canyon then get salsa and ice cream at the Gifford Store.
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Capitol Reef might be my favorite national park in Utah. It’s the one I’ve lived the closest to making it the easiest for me to explore and makes for a great weekend trip in Utah.
While it has a ton of awesome hikes, there are so many cool things to do that involve little to no hiking. Whether you can’t hike or just don’t like it, you should still visit Capitol Reef. You’ll still be able to see plenty of the park.
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Capitol Reef is definitely the most underrated national park in Utah. It gets overlooked on road trips through the area (guilty) for the much more popular Arches and Zion.
While I love the hiking of Capitol Reef and how close it is to where I live in the summer, I really, really love picking fruit in the orchards and it makes a weekend trip to Torrey that much better.
Continue reading “Everything You Need To Know About The Capitol Reef Orchards”
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I’ve driven past the trailhead for Headquarters Canyon I don’t know how many times over the last three summers without doing the hike. Well, I finally hiked Headquarters Canyon and it was so cool. Plus, there was a Geocache tucked way back in there giving me even more reason to want to see it.
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Capitol Reef is one of my favorite national parks so far. It has tons of awesome hiking. It’s super close to other awesome parks. It has delicious cinnamon rolls and ice cream. And it’s highly overlooked. I just wanted to share some of my favorite pictures from my visits, my favorite posts from the park, and some of my top tips for visiting.
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The first day my parents were visiting we had a solid plan: take Burr Trail all the way to Burr Trail Grill in Boulder then go to Capitol Reef to see the Pioneer Register again (they hadn’t seen it yet) and pick apples in the orchard at Capitol Reef, finally! I wanted to pick fruit last year, but we didn’t know how it worked, couldn’t figure it out, and didn’t have any money so we didn’t do it, but now I knew and I was EXCITED!
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On our way back from Great Basin we ended up passing through Capitol Reef, which we do a lot, but we decided to stop and make the drive into Capitol Gorge.
Last year we made a quick stop there, but we didn’t go to the end of the road, this time we did. I don’t think we had the intentions to do much hiking, or any, really, but we set off to see the Pioneer Register anyways.
Continue reading “A Pit Stop In Capitol Reef: Hiking The Capitol Gorge Trail To The Pioneer Register And The Tanks”
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After first hearing about the Sulphur Creek hike on a podcast, I knew I had to do it. I started thinking of it as the desert narrows. Yes, the narrows in Zion technically are the desert, but this actually felt like desert.
I finally hiked part of the narrows in Zion the week before, still out of order, I know, and now I got to do Sulphur Creek to compare them. This is the perfect hot weather day hike in Capitol Reef.
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Updated April 2021
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After driving through Capitol Reef a couple times and exploring the south end a little bit, it was time for a proper visit to the scenic road in the north.
There is the highway that passes through the park and the 10-mile (one way) scenic drive near the visitors center taking you further into the park. Both have a number of hikes and orchards along the way with plenty to do for a whole or half day in Capitol Reef.
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The best part about working at night was that I had all morning to go do stuff and explore. This time is was Surprise Canyon in Capitol Reef. It was my second time in the park and this time I had a goal.
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It was my birthday and I wanted to go somewhere. After rounding up some new friends, we set off for Capitol Reef with, well, no plan. After following Burr Trail to the end of the paved section, we went left to get to Capitol Reef. The first part of it is really pretty, but instead of going straight to follow Notom Road, we went left to continue up the switchbacks on Burr.
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