Travel-Capitol Reef National Park TB

This trackable is unusual for its longevity and movement. In the six-year period, 2010-15, the owner released a total of 2168 trackables in the United States (96%) and Europe (4%). This trackable is one of the 5% of the total that circulated for at least 5 years and had been moved at least 25 times.  That is a rate of at least five drops per year for five years, or a drop every 73 days.  As of 13-May-21 this particular trackable had survived for 10.6 years and had been moved by 47 cachers, for an average release every 82 days. Keep it moving!

Please drop it in a Premium Member only OR a rural cache near a busy trail or road. Do not place it in an urban cache or abandon it at a caching event where there is no security.  Transport the bug in the original plastic bag for as long as the bag lasts; the bag keeps the trackable clean, protects the number and prevents tangling with other items.  Otherwise, take the trackable anywhere you wish.  No permission is needed to leave the U.S.

Visitor's patch from Capitol Reef National Park. CRNP comprises 378 square miles of colorful canyons, ridges, buttes, and monoliths. About 75 miles of the long up-thrust called the Waterpocket Fold, extending like a rugged spine from Thousand Lake Plateau southward to Lake Powell, is preserved within the park boundary. Capitol Reef is the name of an especially rugged and spectacular part of the Waterpocket Fold near the Fremont River. Brigham Young sent his Mormon followers out to the remote corners of Utah with the charge to subdue the land and make it productive, but he also told to them to make gardens, orchards, and vineyards, so they might take pleasure in the places they lived.

The former settlement of Fruita, the site of the Visitor’s Center of CRNP, is such a place. Since 1898, the lush green valley nestled among the cliffs of white and red sandstone has been compared to the Garden of Eden. The National Park Service maintains the orchards and historic setting. The orchards include apple, pear, peach, cherry, apricot, mulberry, even Potowatomee Plum. In season, some of the fruit may be picked free-of-charge by visitors.