Posts tagged #travel

The most photographed lighthouse on the West Coast, built in 1894 above the Oregon Coast with a First Order Fresnel lens visible 21 miles at sea.

A long, windswept beach north of Florence where the Oregon Dunes begin and the Pacific delivers its full unfiltered character to anyone standing on the sand.

A 286-foot plunge waterfall in the Oregon Cascades near Willamette Pass — one of the tallest in the state, with a viewing deck, rim trail, and winter snowshoeing season.

A small, quiet Oregon Coast beach between Cannon Beach and Hug Point, with tide pools, sea stacks, and a forested headland that most visitors drive past.

A 20-mile canyon of hydrothermally altered rock in brilliant yellows, oranges, and reds, with the 308-foot Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River at its head.

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.