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# Capitol Reef National Park
- URL: https://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/photos/capitol-reef-national-park/
- Published: 2013-05-26T10:34:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-01-06T09:50:53.000Z
- Description: Capitol Reef National Park is one of my favourite national parks in the US. I'd love to go back one day to explore more of the back country.
- Author: Ivar Hagendoorn
- Tags: Photography

Capitol Reef National Park is a spectacular national park in south-central Utah. It receives far less visitors than Zion and Arches National Park. On my hikes I only encountered a few other hikers. I stayed in Torrey and only visited the area around the visitor centre on Highway 24\. Capitol Reef National Park is huge, covering an area of nearly 1,000 square km, and I plan to go back one day to explore some remote corners of the park.

![Capitol Reef National Park](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2022/12/capitol-reef-national-park-1.jpg)

Yes, that's my rental car

![Zooming in on a canyon wall in Capitol Reef National Park](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/capitol-reef-national-park-2.jpg)

Nothing to see here, except rocks. But I love rocks.

![Zooming in on a canyon wall in Capitol Reef National Park](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/capitol-reef-national-park-3.jpg)

More rocks

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/capitol-reef-national-park-4.jpg)

Yet more rocks and some trees.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/capitol-reef-national-park-5b.jpg)

![Along the Golden Throne trail in Capitol Reef National Park](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/capitol-reef-national-park-6b.jpg)

This photo perfectly captures what the Golden Throne trail and this section of Capitol Reef National Park is like

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/capitol-reef-national-park-7.jpg)

Dead tree in Capitol Reef National Park

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/capitol-reef-national-park-8.jpg)

And another

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/capitol-reef-national-park-9.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/capitol-reef-national-park-10.jpg)

These photos were taken along the Golden Throne trail in Capitol Reef National Park, one of the most beautiful hikes in the park.

![Zooming in on a canyon wall in Capitol Reef National Park](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/capitol-reef-national-park-11.jpg)

A canyon wall. The path is actually "in" the wall. 

![Somewhere along the Golden Throne trail in Capitol Reef National Park](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/capitol-reef-national-park-12.jpg)

Somewhere along the Golden Throne trail in Capitol Reef National Park

![View of Sulphur Creek Canyon from Goosenecks Overlook in Capitol Reef National Park](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/capitol-reef-national-park-13.jpg)

The view of Sulphur Creek Canyon from Goosenecks Overlook

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/capitol-reef-national-park-14.jpg)

Along Highway 24, which leads through Capitol Reef National Park

![Close-up of a canyon wall in Capitol Reef National Park](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/capitol-reef-national-park-15.jpg)

Close-up of a canyon wall in Capitol Reef National Park

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