Posts tagged #national-park

Grand Teton National Park in northwestern Wyoming rises abruptly from the valley floor without foothills — the jagged Teton peaks just appear, reflected in glacial lakes, with wildlife grazing in the meadows below.

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

Zion National Park in southwestern Utah is a landscape of towering sandstone canyon walls, ancient cultural history, and hikes that range from gentle riverside strolls to vertiginous ridgeline scrambles above the clouds.

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 buttes that requires real commitment to see properly.

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, producing a shade of blue that seems almost artificially saturated.

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 otherworldly it barely feels like it belongs to this planet.

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, orange, and white that fill the amphitheater like a frozen crowd.

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.

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 it makes sense.