National Parks Traveler Episode 22: What Do You Know About Capitol Reef National Park?

By Kurt Repanshek - July 14th, 2019

The Capitol Reef Reader is not your typical national park guidebook. No trail, dining, or lodging information. Rather, The Capitol Reef Reader offers an incredible wealth of information in the essays Stephen Trimble has pulled together for this collection. Essays by the likes of Clarence Dutton who traveled the Southwest with Major John Wesley Powell, Ed Abbey, and that literary conservation giant, Wallace Stegner.

We talk with Trimble this week about how he pulled together the wonderful essays in this anthology on Capitol Reef National Park. Erika Zambello makes a short stop at the Old Post Office Building in Washington, D.C., and we end the show with a look at two wonderful monuments in Arizona, Wupatki and Sunset Crater Volcano.

:02 - Welcome to National Parks Traveler

:12 - Show introduction with Kurt Repanshek

1:33 - Capitol Reef Reader introduction

3:02 - Interview with Steve Trimble, editor of The Capitol Reef Reader

10:49 - National Parks Traveler promotion

11:06 - North Cascades Institute promotion

11:25 - Yankee Freedom promotion

12:06 - Interview with Steve Trimble continues

28:02 - RV share.com promotion

28:36 - Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation promotion

29:03 - Yosemite Conservancy promotion

29:41 - Erika Zabmello visits the Old Post Office Building in Washington, D.C.

33:00 - Friends of Acadia promotion

33:30 - Washington's National Park Fund promotion

34:06 - A visit to Wupatki and Sunset Crater Volcano national monuments

40:35 - Orange Tree Productions

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