Southern Utah – April 2018

April 4, Capitol Reef and Escalante.

Followed Highway 24 south through Capitol Reef – brought back memories of breaking my arm there not so many years ago.  Scenery is still spectacular.

Highway 24 south of Goblin Valley
I’m going to keep track of how many of these optical observatories We run across…
Beautiful scenery coming into Capitol Reef
xp in Capitol Reef
Great views at Capitol Reef

We then turned on Highway 12 and traveled through the Grand Staircase – if we have time, we’ll explore off-road here in a few days.  We camped for the night in Escalante at the Petrified Forest State Park.

View from Highway 12
Chuck and Karen
Scary View from HIghway 12
View from Highway 12
Deep Gorge from Highway 12
Tall cliffs on highway 12
Nice colors!
Slick rock!
Chuck and our XP
View from Highway 12

We ended the day at Escalante Petrified Forest State Park – love the colors in the Petrified trees!

On our hike we saw several petrified logs
Petrified logs on our hike
View back to Escalante Petrified Forest State Park Lake
Mushroom rock
50 foot Petrified Log
Our camping spot at Petrified Forest State Park