Parks and locations featured in the 2022 edition include:
• The sandstone formations of Fiery Furnace, located near the center of Arches National Park, look especially dramatic in the later afternoon sun, even on this winter day.
• Spider rock is a focal point of the extraordinary landscape of Canyon de Chelly National Monument in Arizona.
• The view from Big Badlands overlook at sunrise looks as other-worldly as almost anywhere on earth.
• Crater Lake National Park in Oregon encompasses one of the most unusual (and the deepest) lakes in the United States.
• In addition to expansive vistas and waterfalls, Yellowstone National Park also hosts environments on a smaller scale.
• Capitol Reef National Park in Utah preserves a unique geographic feature called the Waterpocket Fold, a 100-mile-long upthrust formation where continental plates collided to form an S-shaped monocline.
• The spire-shaped rock formations of Bryce Canyon national Park in Utah are called “hoodoos” and seen here from an overlook between Sunset Point and inspiration Point.
• The waters of the Green River carved a vast serpentine pattern in the white rim sandstone here overlooking an ancient Utah Juniper at Canyonlands National Park in Utah.
• Part of the largest temperate rain forest in the United States is protected by Olympic National Park in Washington.
• The Grand Canyon lives up to its name. Carved by the Colorado River and its tributaries, the canyon is 277 miles long, as much as 18 miles wide and reaches a depth of more than one mile.
• The largest, hottest, lowest and driest national park in America, Death Valley National Park straddles the border between California and Nevada.
• Zion National Park in Utah features dramatic rock formations that line the 15-mile-long Zion Canyon like sentinels.
