 Capitol Gorge, Capitol Reef National Park, Utah, is a great place to hike. Narrow, no wider than a wagon in places, it was once the only way through the Waterpocket Fold, a wall of rock that stretches sinuously through southern Utah for a hundred miles. (State Highway 24, built in 1962, now penetrates the Fold). In the Gorge, hikers frequently visit an area of the wall called Pioneer Register, where nineteenth-and early twentieth-century travelers etched their names into the cliff wall.
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