Fruita Campground, Capitol Reef National Park, Torrey UT
Fruita Campground, Capitol Reef National Park, Torrey UT, April 21, 2011
Fruita Campground is in a lush canyon along the Tremont River at the site of a small farming community in Capitol Reef National Park, Torrey UT.
Fruita Campground, Capitol Reef National Park, Torrey UT
- No Verizon cell phone service is available here - and no broadband.
- Locate on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
Nights I've camped here
Crayfish Chimney
Late one afternoon I sat upon my camera case beside the path where it wound through the darkest part of the woods, down near the pond, and watched a crayfish building his "chimney," the land entrance to his underwater tunnel. He had just started to work above the ground when I first arrived. He came up through the moist black earth, carrying a ball of it between his two enormous fighting claws. Using the claws as hands, he spread the soil around the hole to form the base of the chimney. He then backed down the hole and after several minutes came up with another armful.