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The photography blog of Victoria Bennett Beyer, featuring travel photographs from road trips across America and botanical photography of plants, flowers and leaves.
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We visited the Tonopah Mining Museum in Nevada, located on the original site of the claims. It's got a huge amount of equipment on display, as well as several buildings from the mining operations. There's even a short mine shaft where you can stand in a metal cage over the abyss of the excavated earth below.
The aspens were moving and shaking at our campground in Great Basin National Park. This one stopped for a moment so I could get its photo.
The Grand Canyon is for thinking those big thoughts.
Bryce Canyon National Park is famous for its spire-like hoodoo rocks. When I wondering just how there can be another unique type of rock formation, there was Bryce, with hoodoos as far as the eye can see. We hiked the Navajo Loop Trail, where we descended among the hoodoos, walked among them, and threaded this slot canyon, and hiked back up switchbacks. It was a truly beautiful hike.
These ancient cottonwood trees at Capitol Reef National Park were massive. We sat in their shade while we helped Wyle fill in her Junior Ranger booklet.
Capitol Reef State Park was such a refreshing experience after being so hot and dry for the last few weeks. The Fruita enclave, an historic Mormon settlement along the Freemont River, serves as the central area of the park, featuring a Vistor's Center, campground, nature center, and several orchards.
In fact, the orchards are adjacent to the campground, meaning we spent the evening and following morning picking apricots and eating them right off the tree.
Wyle makes some new friends.
The deer were everywhere, obviously enjoying the fruit as much as we were.
Another highlight (THE highlight, depending on who you ask), was the little store that sold freshly baked fruit pies. In the morning we hightailed it the store and everybody bought a pie. Then we sat at the nearby picnic table and had pie for breakfast!
And just in case you think Capitol Reef is all about pie, here are some photos of the beautiful landscape. We very much enjoyed the scenic drive, particularly the off-road portion that winds through the gorge, the walls of which tower above you.
Goblin Valley State Park in Utah was one of the most unexpected delights of our trip so far. It was a scheduled stop, but no photos I had seen of it prepared me for how delightful it would be. From a parking lot and picnic area, you can look down on the rock formations, or 'goblins.' I had no idea you could walk among them. You descend to the valley by a short walk, and suddenly you are immersed in a labyrinth of rocks, many as tall as you. I dallied behind my husband, daughter, and father-in-law, to shoot these photos from above. I imagined I would catch up to them after a little hustle, but once I descended, they were nowhere to be seen. I wandered for an hour looking for them among the rocks, but never did find them. You might think you'd get lost, but really, the parking lot on the hill above is an excellent landmark and easy to see so you can orient yourself simply by looking up. In that way, it was a very safe but totally immersive sort of wander, through what felt like an alien landscape. It was more fun than I can describe.
