Come to Utah’s Capitol Reef National Park for the canyons, stay for the stargazing.

There is just one paved road in Capitol Reef National Park in southern Utah. It is an eight-mile scenic drive on which the only traffic jams are caused by an occasional herd of mule deer. Instead of ...

Explore easy hikes, petroglyphs, and the rugged Cathedral Valley loop in Utah’s Capitol Reef, with big skies and dark-sky ...

One of Capitol Reef’s most topographically diverse hikes wanders through a landscape of contrasts from high and wide-open to a slot inside the earth. The stem-and-loop incorporates four elements: ...

Just when you thought you’d seen it all in Zion and Bryce, Utah’s quiet rock star park (named after the U.S. Capitol, no less) performs wild desert geology like nowhere else. Call it a geologic ...

Fall is the best time to visit my park because the colors are exquisite, the weather is glorious, and there is fruit for the picking in the Fruita orchards. But winter is my favorite. Seeing snow on ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (NEXSTAR) — It’s nowhere near a capitol, and ...