Waterpocket Fold
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Gallery for Capitol Reef National Park |
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Early settlers thought the white cliffs looked like the white buildings in DC,
while others looked at the fold as a barrier and having nautical background
called it a reef.
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Our travels took us into beautiful landscape country.
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Passing the former Calf Creek (where I left my calves
from walking so much!)
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And the view is getting prettier but a little
stranger.
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Things are really getting strange.
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And then out of no where come these huge rocks on both
sides of the road.
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Just an inclination of what's to come.
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Then we went down - a sign said for the next mile huge
grade - I think we went down a mile in a mile.
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The strangest rocks come out of the ground - this is
the Waterpocked Fold
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We decide to trek back the "highway" way and not the
gravel road way and run into these Fremont petroglyphs.
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The up through the Dixie Forrest - -
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and the beautiful of Autumn Aspens
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The view was spectacular going back.
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