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Grand Teton National Park in northwestern Wyoming rises abruptly from the valley floor without foothills — the jagged Teton peaks just appear, reflected in…

An active stratovolcano at 14,410 feet dominating western Washington — glaciers, wildflower meadows at Paradise, and views that make the rest of the range…

Zion National Park in southwestern Utah is a landscape of towering sandstone canyon walls, ancient cultural history, and hikes that range from gentle…

Utah's largest national park is a vast plateau carved into three separate districts by the Colorado and Green rivers — a landscape of mesas, canyons, and…

A Bandon, Oregon headland with a Native American legend, dramatic sea stacks named Cat and Kitten Rocks, and a stairway trail down to a wild stretch of…

A 235-foot basalt sea stack on Cannon Beach, home to nesting tufted puffins in spring and summer and some of the best tide pools on the Oregon Coast.

Crater Lake in Oregon is the deepest lake in the United States and one of the most pristine — a collapsed volcano filled over millennia by snowmelt…

Niagara Falls from the American side — the Horseshoe Falls and American Falls, the Maid of the Mist boat tour, and the improbable scale of moving water.

Arches National Park in southeastern Utah holds the world's highest concentration of natural stone arches — over 2,000 of them — in a landscape so…