Touring the West – Capitol Reef
Highway 24 in Utah on the way to Capitol Reef National Park. Photos by Will Parson.
Between Cedar Breaks and Capitol Reef National Park stretches the red open road of Utah. My girlfriend Liz and I skipped famously scenic Highway 12, which Serena ended up taking on her own way through Utah. Instead we took the somewhat scenic Highway 24 instead.
Capitol Reef is like a mini Zion. Not as tall, not as wide, but also fewer people to muck up the scenery. Though, we still caught a boy vandalizing a rock while his family admired the sunset at aptly-named Sunset Point.
Several of the original buildings of the Mormon settlement town of Fruita are preserved, as are the orchards of apricot and pear trees. Visitors are free to pick their own fruit, and during my stay I harvested some of the tastiest apricots I’ve ever had.
Capitol Reef National Park is home to the former Mormon settlement town of Fruita, Utah.
Enjoy these photos of Capitol Reef while I prepare to serve up some photos from Yellowstone National Park, coming at you soon enough.
Touring the West – Capitol Reef National Park – Images by Will Parson
“Touring the West” is an ongoing travel series by Will Parson on MeridianCollective.org that will feature photos, text and video from his three weeks on the road in July. Find previous installments below.
- Part one – San Diego to Zion National Park
- Part two – Zion National Park
- Part three – Angel’s Landing
- Part four – Cedar Breaks National Monument
