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Cohab Canyon Trail (Capitol Reef National Park, UT)

On By Andrew WojtanikIn Capitol Reef National Park, Moderate Hikes, Utah25 Comments

Some places have great stories, and popular hiking destination Cohab Canyon in Utah’s Capitol Reef National Park is exactly one of those places. For the Mormon faith’s remaining polygamists in Utah, the late 1800s were a trying time: the state had just consented to the Edmunds Act, which bans the practice. Federal law enforcement officials …

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The Castle Trail (Capitol Reef National Park, UT)

On By Andrew WojtanikIn Capitol Reef National Park, Moderate Hikes, Utah6 Comments

Visible from just outside the Visitor Center, the cragged hunk of ochre-colored Wingate sandstone known as “the Castle” is one of Capitol Reef National Park’s iconic landmarks. The monument’s blocky façade—the only surface seen by the vast majority of visitors—disguises a far more rugged northern face, an eroded cluster of spindly fins and needles. An …

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