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Or (although it's the wrong direction for the op), going west from Capitol Reef National Park across Utah Hwy 12 will take you up into some pretty spectacular (and cool) mountain scenery along with the Escalante formations. The NY Times once wrote a story about this particular highway. It is indeed spectacular.