Waterpocket Fold is a nearly 100-mile geologic fold in southern Utah that runs from southern Wayne County through Garfield County into northern Kane County and forms the defining landform of Capitol Reef National Park. Created during the Laramide orogeny, it is a south-southeast-trending monocline with the east side dropped relative to the west, producing the cliffs, ridges, and tilted rock layers that give the park its distinctive landscape. Its name comes from waterpockets that form in the rock. Routes such as Utah State Route 24, the park’s Scenic Drive, and Notom Road reveal different sections of this major feature of the Colorado Plateau.