So the third Utah National Park is less popular than other four. And it’s difficult to say for what reason. I cannot say that there was a lot of wow effect places. But I definitely found a lot of interesting.

On that day we left Moab and started our route back West. We exited I15 on SR24 and of course started to stop on every vista point. Route is scenic as the most of the roads between national parks


Capitol Reef National Park has three major region: Waterpocket District, Cathedral Valley, and Fruita. The first two have unpaved road, and after previous day dirt road experience we decided to take day of the rest and explore Fruita.
And as the majority of visitors, we started with Scenic Drive.



I liked mostly unpaved part of it. It goes through the narrow canyon.







The roads end on trailhead which follows canyon to watertanks along the wall with petroglyphs.



What we liked is the picnic area near the river and under the shade of huge trees with pleasant shadow in the hot summer day.
The second most famous nature sight in the park is Hickman Bridge so we hiked there. The trail by itself is interesting: with the view on Fremont river, Capitol Dome, canyons and unique rocks.








Bridge is huge. Real bridge. Not the ordinary arch, but massive and concrete bridge.




And more of the trail views




It even has smaller version of the bridge 😉

And Fremont river


Oh, and we visited local Goosenecks