{"id":10065,"date":"2020-08-28T10:41:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T14:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hiddenmesa.com\/?p=10065"},"modified":"2021-08-04T16:54:34","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T20:54:34","slug":"roadside-view-of-capitol-reef-national-park-one-day-at-this-utah-attraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hiddenmesa.com\/index.php\/roadside-view-of-capitol-reef-national-park-one-day-at-this-utah-attraction\/","title":{"rendered":"Roadside View of Capitol Reef National Park: One Day at This Utah Attraction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Do you know where Capital Reef National Park is? We found it by chance more than two decades ago and we&#8217;ve been going back since then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Capital Reef is a small National Park located in southern Utah. It&#8217;s in the neighborhood of the Grand Escalante National Recreation Area, Zion National Park, and  Bryce Canyon National Park. The closest town is called Torrey. Not much there except a small grocery store and a handful of restaurants, cafes and hotels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The area has grown significantly over the years, but we think it&#8217;s still one of the best kept secrets in southern Utah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video we made from a recent trip through Capitol Reef. We hesitate to say that it was our destination, but rather, it was a diversion as we traveled from one place to another. Next time we&#8217;ll want to spend more time and explore some of the backcountry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Capitol Reef National Park\" width=\"1440\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2Ivq57z4BLo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>We spent just a single day ambling around Capitol Reef National Park in southern Utah. Here&#8217;s what we found by observing from the roadside.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We spent about six weeks in this area a few years ago when we were RVing full time and came away with a few stories. Here are a few:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hiddenmesa.com\/index.php\/capital-reef-national-park\/\">Capitol Reef National Park<\/a> &#8211; Our introductory piece from a couple of years ago when we visited this the Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hiddenmesa.com\/index.php\/capital-reef-national-park-image-gallery\/\">Capitol Reef national Park &#8211; Image gallery<\/a> &#8211; Some of our first images from Capitol Reef National Park. They&#8217;re still relevant since nothing has changed over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hiddenmesa.com\/index.php\/the-waterpocket-fold\/\">Capitol Reef &#8211; Waterpocket Fold<\/a> &#8211; We dive into the fascinating geology of the area around Capitol Reef called The Waterpocket Fold. By visiting Capitol Reef national Park, it&#8217;s no mystery that the area has been very geologically active and this article explains a little about how it all took place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hiddenmesa.com\/index.php\/capital-reef-national-park-wayne-wonderland\/\">Capital Reef National Park \u2013 Wayne Wonderland<\/a> &#8211; Here we dive into a bit of the recent history of Wayne County and who the first Mormon settlers were.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hiddenmesa.com\/index.php\/goblin-valley-utahs-weirdest-rocks\/\">Goblin Valley \u2013 Utah\u2019s Weirdest Rocks<\/a> &#8211; This should have been listed first. If you visit Capitol Reef National Park and you come from I-70, you pass by Goblin Valley State Park near Hanksville. This place has the weirdest rocks we&#8217;ve seen anywhere and it&#8217;s worth a visit, especially if it&#8217;s on your way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We spent just one day driving through Capitol Reef national Park, and brought back some great images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,2172,4,729],"tags":[3230,714,3231,698],"class_list":["post-10065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-travel","category-us-parks","category-video","tag-capitol-reef-national-park","tag-national-parks","tag-us-parks","tag-utah","has-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiddenmesa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiddenmesa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiddenmesa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiddenmesa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiddenmesa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10065"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/hiddenmesa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10442,"href":"https:\/\/hiddenmesa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10065\/revisions\/10442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiddenmesa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiddenmesa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiddenmesa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiddenmesa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}