The walls of the Capitol Gorge slot canyon rise sharply on both sides of a dusty dirt and gravel road.

Rust-colored boulders lie scattered at the base of the shear cliffs and collect on the natural

shelves of the canyon walls.

The polka dotted look of the pockmarked pockets

speckling the walls is a stark contrast

to the black vertical streaks known as desert varnish.

Studying the patterns in the cliffs can be like cloud gazing.

Let your imagination run wild and you'll see faces and animals the shapes shifting

and morphing and the changing light as the sun moves across the desert landscape.

Once the only access road to Capitol Reef National Park, Capitol Gorge provides a harsh and beautiful stone causeway that opens up into a world of bizarre and varied stone formations. Desert washes both narrow and wide and the types of plants

common in the high desert.

Stunted trees like pinioned pine and Utah

juniper, brickly pear cacti,

and the brilliant orange of globe mallows

and striking red of desert paintbrush.

And then a site that is unfathomable in the desert.

The delicate showy blossoms, of fruit trees.

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