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Capitol Reef National Park is one of the lessor visited parks in Utah but in my opinion still very scenic.
When we stopped at the visitor center, I saw this cool picture of this old barn up on one of the walls. I thought it made a great composition so I had to capture it.
Luckily it's only a mile or 2 down from the visitor center at the Gifford Homestead.
Per the National Park service website... The original home was built in 1908 by polygamist Calvin Pendleton. He and his family occupied it for eight years. The original house had a combined front room/kitchen and two small bedrooms. An outside ladder accessed two upstairs bedrooms. Pendleton also constructed the barn and smokehouse, as well as the rock walls near the house and on the mesa slopes above it.
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I was very careful stepping on some rocks to get to this pristine section of the desert. The soil there is alive, and takes many years to get to this state ... so not stepping on it is quite important. I really liked this pristine view of the earth there leading into the wall of the Reef there in Utah.
This view was via one of the back dirt roads there in the park.
On our first night at Capitol Reef National Park we took a wrong turn when we left our RV park which was about 15 miles away. By the time we figured out our mistake and turned around it was getting late. So we arrived in the park after sunset. But we still managed to get some landscape shots.
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Another visit to this location with some ok conditions providding a hint of colour and some flow over the rock shelf.
Early morning view with some nice moonlight over the scene there in Capitol Reef National Park. The moonlight was so bright this was captured at ISO 800.
On way out after spending the day at Capital Reef National Park I pulled over the side of the road and scrambled on top of a boulder to take one of my last shots for the day.
A panoramic shot of Sunset Point at Capitol Reef National Park after sunset, with the Henry mountains in the background. This is looking East - against the sunset - and gives a very nice view of the evening colors.
That morning, we started from Jackson, MT, stopped by Bannack to visit the ghost town, and still made it to this spot by sunset. A great end to a great day.
This point near Bell Buoy Beach in northern Tasmania marks the beginning of a rocky reef. As the name suggests it extends out to sea and along the coast for two miles. It is one of the reasons the Low Head Lighthouse was built to warn shipping.
This gateway leads into the Capitol Gorge area of Capitol Reef National Park.
As we viewed sheer cliffs in many places on this trip, like the cliff on the left, we wondered what massive force(s) would make an almost perfectly flat slab of vertical rock loosen itself and fall. Just one of the many things that come to mind when beholding such natural marvels.
The term reef in this context had puzzled me because I normally thought of a reef in an aquatic setting. Wikipedia, however, comes to the rescue. In a dry land setting, āā¦ reef refers to any rocky barrier to land travel, just as ocean reefs are barriers to sea travel.ā
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Reef like a aquarium
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Was lucky that this fellow flew in for a few minutes whilst at Long Reef. Not as sharp as one would like as it was just after sunrise.
The San Rafael Reef rises spectacularly, with uplifted monoliths of bare sandstone reaching hundreds of feet above the desert. This formation, which continues for many miles, is accented by a repeated pattern of soil and brightly colored rock forming "teeth" at the bases of the uplifted slabs. This shot shows the repeated pattern and the layers of the "teeth."
The pattern formed by many teeth is seen in the first comment.
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The late afternoon cloudy view made for some interesting scenes there among this amazing Utah landscape. Nature is so amazing to explore.
Capitol Reef Sunrise: The color of the rocks at Utah's Capitol Reef National Park give a fantastic analogous color match with the rising sun, with the spots of green complimenting the magenta hues. I found this excellent sunrise view at Sunset Point, which is a perfect location for getting a grand view of this beautiful park.
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Sunrise at Long Reef marine reserve this morning.
Low tide at Long Reef exposes a wide flat rock shelf with scattered rocks and residual rock pools