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Bryce Canyon National Park in southern Utah holds the largest concentration of hoodoos on Earth — thousands of tall, narrow rock spires in shades of red…

A two-tiered 113-foot waterfall framed by perfect columnar basalt in Oregon's Umpqua National Forest — one of the most photographed waterfalls in the…

A 2,000-foot-deep canyon of 1.7-billion-year-old Precambrian rock in western Colorado — one of the most dramatic and least visited national parks.

A quiet Oregon Coast town with a 2,000-year-old ghost forest of buried sitka spruce stumps emerging from the surf at low tide.

The tallest trees on earth along 37 miles of pristine California coastline — a place that requires standing still and looking up for several minutes before…

Glacier National Park in northwestern Montana is one of the most dramatic landscapes in North America — alpine meadows, ancient glaciers, turquoise lakes…

California's volcanic spire park with California condors overhead, talus caves, and rock climbing on ancient lava formations moved by the San Andreas Fault.

Nevada's remote national park with 5,000-year-old bristlecone pines, Lehman Caves with 300 shield formations, and Wheeler Peak rising to 13,063 feet.

Exploring Acadia National Park on Maine's Mount Desert Island, where granite summits meet the Atlantic Ocean and the famous carriage roads wind through…