Below: The Burr Trail Road CR-1668, Hanksville, Utah - Beautiful Scenery and a dirt road.

Burr Trail is a long dirt road that twists and turns, but every inch of the road has fantastic scenery. The two RV Gypsies did not meet a single car while on this road, which was a good thing because the road was not that wide most of the time. Often, the view extended for many miles.

Below: Rocky areas by the side of the road.

Below: Karen Duquette noticed a hill with red dirt and white stripes - then the hill dipped and rolled along. The top of the hill appeared to be a more neutral color, like regular dirt.

Below: So Lee Duquette stopped their truck and walked the short distance to the red-striped hill to see if it was hard rock or soft sand.

After that brief stop, Lee and Karen Duquette continued their journey on Burr Trail Road and Karen photographed the road through the front window, to show the big dips in the dirt road.

Below: Looking far ahead, the twisty, curvy road could be seen for miles away.

Below: Time for a tailgate lunch break at the side of the road. Lee Duquette set the camera up on self-timer because there was nobody else in sight. They are often alone in their travels.

Below: After lunch, Karen Duquette saw a rock that she thought looked like a short but beautiful natural staircase.

Below: A panorama shot of the scenery and a very tiny Karen Duquette enjoying the view.

Below: Back on the road again, the scenery changed constantly, but was always amazingly beautiful.

Below: As Lee and Karen Duquette approached the back side of the entrance to Capitol Reef National Park, the dirt road was now paved, finally.

This has been only a small portion of the Grand Staircase-Escalante. The Utah menu has two other sections of the Grand Staircase-Escalante that Lee and Karen Duquette traveled and each section is completely different.

Capitol Reef National Park - MENU (TOC - Table of Contents)

There are more sections of Capitol Reef National Park below, plus an additional link at the bottom of the page.

1. Capitol Reef National Park (2 pages)

2. Burr Trail Road (this page)

3. Hickman Bridge Trail and the Natural Bridge 133 feet long and 125 feet high

4. Goosenecks Point

5. Wonderland RV Park

After you have seen all of the above, return to the Utah menu page for the other eleven adventures of the two RV Gypsies in Utah - several USA National Parks, Utah State Parks, Goblin Valley and more.

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If you have seen all of the Utah National and State Parks, continue on to Colorado in 2012