Capitol Reef 4
by Susan McMenamin
Title
Capitol Reef 4
Artist
Susan McMenamin
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Capitol Reef 4 -Capitol Reef National Park is a United States National Park, in south-central Utah. The park is approximately 60 miles long on its north south axis but an average of just 6 miles wide. The park was established in 1971 to preserve 241,904 acres (377.98 sq miles) of desert landscape.
Capitol Reef National Park was initially designated a National Monument on August 2, 1937 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in order to protect the area's colorful canyons, ridges, buttes, and monoliths; however, it was not until 1950 that the area officially opened to the public. Easy road access only came in 1962.
The majority of the nearly 100 mile long up-thrust formation called the Waterpocket Fold a rocky spine extending from Thousand Lake Mountain to Lake Powell is preserved within the park. Capitol Reef is the name of an especially rugged and spectacular segment of the Waterpocket Fold by the Fremont River. The park was named for a line of cliffs of white Navajo Sandstone with dome formations, similar to the white domes often placed on capitol buildings that run from the Fremont River to Pleasant Creek on the Waterpocket Fold. The local word reef refers to any rocky barrier to land travel, just as ocean reefs are barriers to sea travel.
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January 5th, 2017
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