The Grand Circle Tour – Day Three – Capitol Reef National Park

Traveling From Bryce to Torrey and Touring Capitol Reef

Again on day three, the journey was part of the entertainment. Traveling along Utah SR-12 was something special. It is nicknamed the All-American Road and we were treated to amazing sights and panoramas all along the way.

This reminded us of a Greek or Roman ruin.Rugged Ranch Building

Utah’s SR-12 – Scenic Byway – The All-American Road

St Anthony of the Desert Catholic Church in Torrey, UT

Capitol Reef is one of the newer national parks. It was established in 1971 to preserve approximately 378 square miles of desert landscape. It is about 60 miles long on its north-south axis and is only six miles wide, on average. The park was named foron observations at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, National Optical Astronomy Observatory, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation.]{}

[This project used public archival data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES). Funding for the DES Projects has been provided by the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Ministry of Science and Education of Spain, the Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom, the Higher Education Funding Council for England, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Kavli Institute of Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago, the Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics at the Ohio State University, the Mitchell Institute for