Escalante and Capitol Reef
July 1 to 3.
We stayed at a park actually in Escalante although it was a privately run business. It was pretty nice for an out of the way desert spot. Except for the fact that the bathhouse was up a staircase then a steep, slippery hill. There were only a few people here and the spaces were large.
It was kind of unpleasant getting there though, very rough roads. I actually felt very stupid when we got there. The official name is the Grand Staircase Escalante Monument, like Mount Rushmore, and I thought it would be like one big mountain with like a natural staircase or something. It's not, it's basically just a National Park.
A really BIG national park. And I wasn't really impressed with it. We ended up using our full day driving the hour and a half into Capitol Reef Park.
It was much better. We were only a mile or so from the Petrified Forest, but didn't take the hike (The long hike is the only way to see most of the petrified wood).
I really glad we went to Capitol Reef instead it was pretty awesome.
The last several miles of the scenic loop was a gravel, one way road with pot holes, but we made it intact. Most of the photos are on the Yellowstone/Utah page if you want to see more of them.
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