At the end of our Utah tour, rather than taking Interstate 15 straight North to Salt Lake City, we decided to take Scenic Highway 12 East and then North via Capitol Reef National Park. We didn't have time to visit this park, but we enjoyed the landscape from some of the summit viewpoints in Dixie National Forest.
Scenic Highway 12 may well present the most beautiful landscape in the United States. Here are just a few snap shots from this road that leads over the very spine of some mountains with awesome sights on both sides.