Petrified Forest National Park"A strange and colorful landscape. Yellow, red, and even purple rocks and sand cover the hilly earth. Huge pieces of ancient trees twist in unusual ways."
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Sequoia National Park"Standing in a grove of some of the world’s largest trees will leave you feeling small, and in awe."
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Death Valley National Park"How can rocks and sand and silence make us afraid and yet be so wonderful?"
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Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park"A massive crack in the earth’s surface, with the sides parted to reveal sheer rock walls plunging nearly straight down to a thin ribbon of river far below."
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Olympic National Park"While the typical image of the park is a dark, damp, and overwhelmingly beautiful temperate rain forest, the park also shelters alpine highlands, tranquil lakeshores, and a wild Pacific coastline that seems totally untouched by humans."
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Yellowstone National Park"Yellowstone, of all the national parks, is the wildest and most universal in its appeal... Daily new, always strange, ever full of change, it is Nature's wonder park."
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Wind Cave National Park"The first cave to be designated a national park, Wind Cave National Park features the world's largest concentration of rare boxwork formations along with 33,851 acres of forest and prairie."
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Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park"The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe."
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Grayson Highlands State Park"Near Mount Rogers and Whitetop Mountain, Virginia's two highest mountains, Grayson Highlands offers scenic views of alpine-like peaks more than 5,000 feet high."
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Scotchman's Peak
"This steep trail passes through a variety of forest types and a wonderful subalpine meadow on its way to the highest peak in the Idaho portion of the Cabinet Mountains. The jagged summit of Scotchman Peak is a jumble of rocks at 7,009 feet."
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Longleaf Pine: Fort Bragg, NC"The pines wide apart; the sunny spaces between full of beautiful abounding grasses, liatris, long, wand-like solidago, saw palmettos, etc., covering the ground in garden style. Here I sauntered in delightful freedom…” - John Muir
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Stansbury Island"Rarely will you ever see another person at the underrated Stansbury Island, the second largest island within the Great Salt Lake in Utah"
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Grassy Ridge Bald / AT"Many people say that this stretch of trail is the most beautiful section along the entire length of the Appalachian Trail."
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Stansbury Island"Rarely will you ever see another person at the underrated Stansbury Island, the second largest island within the Great Salt Lake in Utah."
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Acadia National Park"A patch of coastal Maine where the north woods tumble down to meet the wild Atlantic."
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Mount Everett State Reservation"Made up of eastern hemlock, eastern white pine, and hardwoods like maple trees and oak trees, American beech, and birch trees. At the summit, the forest is a dwarf forest of pitch pine and bear oak that hasn’t been disturbed for centuries."
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Mexican Hat"A patch of coastal Maine where the north woods tumble down to meet the wild Atlantic."
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