Capitol Reef National Park

Capitol Reef National Park is a dynamic and rugged park, full of canyons, sheer cliffs and flash flood plains. Primarily defined by the Waterpocket Fold, a 100-mile long ripple in the Earth’s crust (called a monocline), Capitol Reef National Park is named for the domes of white Navajo Sandstone resembling capitol building rotundas near the Fremont River. In the northern reaches of the park near Thousand Lake Mountain, red Entrada sandstone spires dot the landscape in Cathedral Valley. The park derives the Reef part of its name from early explorers who called an impassible stone wall a reef.

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