Photographing the Benonite Hills

The Benonite Hills, which are located in Capitol Reef National Park, are banded hills in hues of brown, red, purple, gray and green. They can be found along a dirt road after fording the Fremont River in a 4-wheel drive vehicle. Fortunately, I was on a National Parks Photography Expeditions that provided the transportation to “roads less traveled”. I’m not sure I would have the nerve to drive across a river even if I was driving an appropriate vehicle.

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I think because the bands on the hills are so linear, I found myself looking for curves to contrast will all the lines

Location Details

Couldn’t find Benonite Hills on Google Maps or the National Park map. The closest reference I found was the location of the River Ford to access Hartnet road. The Benonite Hills must be somewhere along that road.

A search based on the GPS coordinates of one of my photos, noted by the big red marker, shows a location slightly out of the park boundaries

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