![]() ![]() Several years later, Congress extended some of the boundaries and upgraded it all to a National Park in 1971. Roosevelt signed off on an official proclamation creating Capitol Reef National Monument. At last, their efforts were finally rewarded with the protection they sought in 1937 when Franklin D. He was also aided in his efforts by much assistance from his brother-in-law, Joe Hickman. He was so passionate about getting it protected that he neglected his own business for years to lead and guide federal authorities around the landscape taking surveys for boundary markers. He believed it would benefit the public to keep it a land where others could come and visit and be filled with wonder like himself. That man, Ephraim Pectol, who for some time owned and operated what is now the Chuckwagon Store in Torrey, Utah would ultimately go on to serve in the Utah state legislature and one of his very first acts there was to promote and campaign for a monument to be be created out of a stretch of land he had been calling Wayne Wonderland (in connection with Wayne County). Well, the reader should understand that in falling in love with my wife, Jessica, I also came to fall in love with the landscape her great-great grandfather sought federal protection for in the early 1900's. ![]() Backstory.How did I come to find about about this lesser known and even lesser-hiked route?
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