Capitol Reef National Park protects one of the most remarkable geological landscapes on the Colorado Plateau: the Waterpocket Fold, a nearly 100-mile-long wrinkle in Earth’s crust where tilted layers of sandstone, shale, limestone, and ancient sedimentary rock rise into cliffs, domes, narrow canyons, natural bridges, arches, monoliths, and colorful desert badlands. Located in south-central Utah, …
