I don't know where the orchard is. (Son isn't here right now, so I can't ask him.) I'm pretty sure the deer was very close to the Visitor Center. As I recall, the Center was a great place to be for views. Here is a picture of the sign.Highlander wrote: Capital Reef is a wonderful seldom visited national park. Was the deer picture from the orchard? We saw a lot wildlife during our stay there. We had terrible weather when we were there, mostly rain, looks like you also had overcast days. We were thinking about heading that direction this summer but so little time.
I took a lot of pictures from the car as we drove through the park, although none of them seemed worthy of posting. However, just driving through the park is a good enough reason to go there. I hope you can fit it in this summer.
I glanced through upcoming pictures and see that we visited the Tanks. If you have never been on that trail, you simply must go. They are truly amazing. A geologist's dream, I'd think.
For perspective, we ate breakfast at Hanksville on that day (May 4, 2005), drove through Capitol Reef, walked through Capitol Gorge, drove through the Escalante area and stopped at the town Escalante for the night. My notes say we ate dinner at Cowboy Blues restaurant. Had wine, great steak, and cheesecake. At the motel, we watched Coyote and Roadrunner cartoons, which seems appropriate, given our location.