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Mighty Five (Part 2) October 2020 (Capitol Reef, Arches and Canyonlands)

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Utah Part 1 Ranger Rebe at Dead Horse Point Capitol Reef Album Arches Album Canyonlands Album Day 11 Moving Day It is always sad leaving a beautiful place like Zion, which may or may not have made it into my top three favorite National Parks. But this is the day we left, this is a Saturday and it was rightfully planned this way as you can imagine most parks are slightly more crowded on the weekends so being at Zion on a Saturday was not in the cards.  This is also why we went to Bryce first weekend instead.  The move now is towards the middle of southern Utah, to the least known of the Mighty 5, Capitol Reef National Park.  Capitol Reef is only three and a half hours from Zion, but with so much beauty in southern Utah we decided to take the long route and see some of the cool sights. We left the park through the east entrance, the same as which we entered and headed toward Kanab. From Kanab we continued heading west on US 89 through Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monu...