A Trip To This Underrated Utah National Park Will Make Your Summer Complete

Utah has five gorgeous national parks, and some of them have really put us on the map. Zion National Park receives more than 3.5 million visitors every year; Arches National Park is where our iconic Delicate Arch is found. All five parks are filled with incredible natural wonders and some truly epic beauty. Capitol Reef National Park is the most underrated national park to visit in Utah, and is also the state's least visited park, so if you're looking for a little more solitude and a lot fewer tourists, it's time to check this place out.

Capitol Reef National Park includes 241,904 acres of stunning red rock formations, cliffs, canyons and buttes. It's Utah's wilderness at its finest.

Start your visit with a trip to the Visitor Center. Park rangers can give you some tips and point you to some of the park's amazing natural wonders. You can also get weather updates, which is important, especially during spring and early summer, when flash flooding can occur.

Hickman Bridge is one of the park's best-known attractions. Take the 1.8-mile trail to the natural bridge. Along the way, you'll see a Fremont Indian pit house and granary.

The park has several sites where you can see petroglyphs left by the Fremont people over 1,000 years ago.

Chimney Rock is one of the park's most famous rock formations. Take a 3.5 mile hike to see it.

You'll find the Gifford Homested in the Fruita Valley. The 200 acres of orchards provide tons of fruit, including peaches, cherries and apples, and you're welcome to pick some!

Stay overnight at the Fruita Campground. We recently featured this pretty spot in an article. For more information, read our full article here.

The views here are unparalleled.

Take the Capitol Reef Scenic Drive through the park to see some of its most beautiful attributes.

What is your favorite thing to see when you pay a visit to this national park in Utah?