Halfway between Bryce and Capitol Reef is a relatively new national monument – Escalante Grand Staircase. We had already seen the edge of it at the Vermillion Cliffs on the Colorado River. Talk about being in the middle of nowhere, forget internet, forget cell phones…. there was not even any radio station (AM or FM)! How wild was it? There were mountain lion tracks about 100 yards from where we were camping. Three days in Boulder ( not Colorado but Boulder Utah) among very unique scenery. Boulder Utah has one gas station, one mini mart and one restaurant (actually a well known restaurant that Oprah Winfrey had apparently reported on). We hiked to the hidden jewel of Utah which is a 120 foot waterfall at the end of a canyon. The scenery on the Burr Trail Road was great, the canyon walls towered right above the roadway. Definitely a side road worth taking . Our next stop was Capitol Reef but first you have to drive over the 9600 foot pass and avoid the herds of deer that like to cross the road.
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