{"id":238,"date":"2022-10-20T03:09:25","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T03:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skipvia.com\/southwest2022\/?p=238"},"modified":"2025-11-13T22:27:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T22:27:04","slug":"capitol-reef-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skipvia.com\/southwest2022\/national-park\/capitol-reef-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitol Reef National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We spent a long, glorious day in Capitol Reef hiking and scrambling up and down gorges, canyons, and trails to natural bridges. Capitol Reef has more OHMIGOD moments per square foot than any other landscape I have ever experienced, and words and images probably won\u2019t do it justice. So I\u2019ll forgo most of the words and just throw some images out there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The centerpiece\u2014literally and figuratively\u2014of Capitol Reef is the Waterpocket Fold, a 100 mile long, multi-layered, multi-colored ridge of sandstone of various vintages along with shales, silt, and even some black andesite lava boulders that originated in nearby mountains and were dragged here by glaciers. It will show up in a lot of these images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gotta come back here one of these soon days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, some images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure data-wp-context=\"{&quot;imageId&quot;:&quot;6ac720093245f&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" data-wp-key=\"6ac720093245f\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large wp-lightbox-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--pointerdown=\"actions.preloadImage\" data-wp-on--pointerenter=\"actions.preloadImageWithDelay\" data-wp-on--pointerleave=\"actions.cancelPreload\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-src=\"http:\/\/skipvia.com\/southwest2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/4A9771D2-5137-4561-9E5C-064F91791C36-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-246 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/skipvia.com\/southwest2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/4A9771D2-5137-4561-9E5C-064F91791C36-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/skipvia.com\/southwest2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/4A9771D2-5137-4561-9E5C-064F91791C36-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/skipvia.com\/southwest2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/4A9771D2-5137-4561-9E5C-064F91791C36-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/skipvia.com\/southwest2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/4A9771D2-5137-4561-9E5C-064F91791C36-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/skipvia.com\/southwest2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/4A9771D2-5137-4561-9E5C-064F91791C36-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/skipvia.com\/southwest2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/4A9771D2-5137-4561-9E5C-064F91791C36-400x300.jpeg 400w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; 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