Capitol Reef - Trails

The Hickman Bridge Trail is a fairly easy trail with some cool rock formations. The Hickman Bridge is pretty large plus you can hike through it.

The Nels Johnson Bridge is on this trail and isn’t discussed much, but cool.

Here’s the Capitol Dome. The name of Capitol Reef came from the dome that is supposed to look like the dome in Washington DC. The Reef part is not that this used to be an ocean reef but that a reef can be a barrier and these hills were a barrier in the past.

We thought these black rocks were interesting. They are volcanic / igneous rocks (basalt) from lava flow but when glaciers came through this area it rounded them and dropped them off in the middle of all this sedimentary rock.

A short trail is the Goosenecks. Wonderful views including to the river below.

The Fremont River Trail has large cottonwoods along it. Love the pattern of the bark!

On the hillside along the trail you can see a rock wall (near the top of the picture). It’s not very high. We were told it was either to keep in cattle or just a way to punish their kids by making them work on this wall.