July 10, 2006
Today we toured Capital Reef Park. Each park has its own beauty. This park is known as The Waterpocket Fold. It forms a 100 mile long backbone within the park. Early explorers called it an impassable reef.
Capital Reef is loaded with historical remnants of the Morman Pioneers and the Freemont Indians. The Mormans settled in this area leaving behind a one room school house, a one room stone house, and a farm house. The one room stone house was owned by the Behunin family. Ten members of the family lived in this one room home.
The orchards that they started are still bearing fruit. There are apple, peach, cherry, pear & apricot orchards. We picked apricots while we were there & they were delicious. All day you can see the mule deer enjoying the apricots as well as the visitors to the park.
Butch Cassidy was a regular in the canyon area. Here he hid from the law.
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