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Share The Sunset Point Trail At Capitol Reef National Park is one of the easier trails to hike in the park.  As you might imagine, sine it is called sunset point it can be a popular trail to be on at sunset.  The trail is 1/3 of a mile long following a paved, then maintained [...]

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Share The Old Wagon Loop Trail at Capitol Reef National Park is one of about 15 trails on the main list of maintained hiking trails in Capitol reef National Park.  It is a 3.25-mile loop and covers an elevation gain of 1,100 feet.  It starts at an elevation of 5,900 feet and goes all the [...]

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Share The second day of camping at the Sand Creek RV Park just outside Capitol Reef National Park started out with another clear day.  The winds howled last night and tried to blow the tent to Kansas but thanks to the wind fence and some stakes in the ground around the perimeter of the tent [...]

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Share The Cohab Canyon hiking trail at Capitol reef is one of the best hiking trails at Capitol Reef National Park!  The park rates it as moderately strenuous as it covers 1.75 miles each way (it is not a loop so you hike the same trail 1.75 one-way and then retrace your steps back to [...]

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Share Today was going to be one ambitious, long, hot day of hiking at Capitol Reef National Park!  The goal was to get to Hickman Bridge then continue on to the Capitol Reef Rim Overlook and continue on to the Navajo Knobs for a total of 11+ miles of hiking.  After one more day of [...]

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Share Hickman Bridge is in fact a HUGE natural bridge (kind of like what you would see at Natural Bridges National Monument in South Eastern Utah) that is rated as a moderate hike at Capitol Reef National Park.  The hike is 1-mile each way (to and from the bridge) and loops around through the bridge [...]

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Share The Cassidy Arch Hike at Capitol Reef National Park is one of the more strenuous and spectacular hikes in the park.  The elevation gain is about 1,150 feet over the course of 1.75 miles for a round trip hike of 3.5 miles.  To get to the trailhead you’ll need to drive down past the [...]

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Share After wandering around on the Chimney Rock Trail and in the Chimney Rock Canyon at Capitol Reef National Park yesterday, today would be a day for new sights in a different area of the park.  On tap were hikes to Cassidy Arch, and a sunset hike along the Fremont River Trail.  After taking a [...]

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Share Along with Sunset Point at Capitol Reef National Park, the Fremont River Hike is one of the best spots for sunset photos when the weather cooperates and the cloud cover doesn’t roll in to block the sun at sunset.  Unlike the hike to Sunset Point, which is only 1/3 of a mile from the [...]

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Share The Chimney Rock Loop hiking trail is one of the best hiking trails at Capitol Reef National Park.  The park rates the trail as “strenuous” since it covers a total of 3.5 miles and rises 810 feet in elevation from the lowest to highest point with some ups and downs in between.  The first [...]

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