A group of hikers described their escape amid dangerous flash flooding at Capitol Reef National Park, calling it "insanely lucky." Noah Gremmert, Orrin Allen and Cooper Allen were visiting the Utah ...

Capitol Reef National Park greets visitors with stunning monoliths rising from the desert floor, sheer cliffs and colorful sandstone. And best yet? Fewer crowds than many of Utah's other national ...

Peaches named J.H. Hale and Baby Crawford. Black Tartarian cherries. The Winter Banana — which is actually an apple. This is fruit with a name and a pedigree. The 19 orchards of Capitol Reef National ...

Utah’s Capitol Reef National Park serves up stupendous red rock scenery—without the frustrating summertime crowds you’ll encounter at other nearby parks. Maybe it’s my rumbling stomach, but as I gaze ...

GARFIELD COUNTY, Utah — The National Weather Service is warning the public of potential flash floods in several areas of southern Utah. The NWS of Salt Lake City issued official Flash Flood Warnings ...

Firefighters launched an offensive attack to extinguish a vehicle on fire in Hurricane.At 8 p.m. Sunday, fire crews found a truck fully engulfed in flames near Four people hospitalized after crash in ...

Just when you thought you’d seen it all in Zion and Bryce, Utah’s quiet rock star park (named after the U.S. Capitol, no less) performs wild desert geology like nowhere else. Men’s Journal aims to ...

CAPITOL REEF NATIONAL PARK, Utah - U.S. park rangers at Capitol Reef National Park in Utah said someone stole fossils that dated back to 250 million years ago, known as the Triassic period.

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(NEXSTAR) — It’s nowhere near a capitol, and it certainly doesn’t look like the color reefs you’ll find in Hawaii or off the coast of Australia. So why is this Utah national park called Capitol Reef?