Capital Reef

Capital Reef

We are staying at a small town, Torrey, just off the entrance to Capitol Reef National Park. At the last census they had a population of 182.  When the sun goes down here the stars are very bright.

When the sun comes up this is the view we get from our RV. After breakfast and a walk we headed into the park with just our truck to get a good look at the rock features.  When you are travelling with a large trailer you don't often get the option to pull off the road for a look around.

One of the first pull-outs has this formation, Twin Rocks.  Can't argue with that they are twins...

View to the east from Twin rocks.

This formation is called Chimney Rock.  Just off to the left there was a parking lot and a trail to the base of this feature.  The parking lot was just jammed with vehicles so we moved off up the road and got a better view anyway.

View from a larger view point. The juniper trees were beautiful and had some berries on them.

Chimney Rock is the middle view is contrasting well with all the other shades of red.

Fluted Wall, who names these formations?

The light coloured rock at the top is called the Castle.  I went into the visitor center below to look at the T shirts.  You know the expression... been there, done it, got the T shirt! Well I didn't get the T shirt.