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Bryce Canyon National Park
Published June 25, 2006
The park sits at the eastern edge of the Paunsaugant Plateau, and the ridgeline offers stunning views across southern Utah.
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San Francisco Peaks Volcano Field
Published May 23, 2006
Northern Arizona is best known for the Grand Canyon. Less widely known are the hundreds of geologically young volcanoes scattered across the southern portion of the Colorado Plateau at the eastern foothills of the San Francisco Peaks.
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Pinnacles National Monument
Published May 14, 2006
The landscape was formed as wind, water, and earthquakes carved away a 23-million-year-old volcano.
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North Cascades National Park
Published May 7, 2006
Over 300 glaciers, about one-third of the glaciers in the Lower 48 states, lie within the park boundaries.
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Death Valley National Park
Published April 16, 2006
At 86 meters (282 feet) below sea level, Death Valley, California, is one of the hottest, driest places on the planet.
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Canyon de Chelly National Monument
Published April 2, 2006
Canyon de Chelly National Monument was created in 1931 to protect the cultural heritage of the canyon lands of Arizona.
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Lassen Volcanic National Park
Published January 29, 2006
Although nearly a century has passed since its last eruption, signs of volcanic activity are still visible in this false-color image.
Lava Beds National Monument
Published October 16, 2005
The landscape is a recently formed set of basaltic lava flows that creates a foreboding landscape of sharp obsidian, cinder and spatter cones, twisted rivers of solidified rock, pit craters, and a network of caves from lava tubes.
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Black Canyon
Published October 2, 2005
Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park is a small park that encompasses the steep-walled canyons of the Gunnison River, which drains snowmelt from the Rocky Mountains in western Colorado.
Mt. Rainier, Washington
Published September 26, 2005
A clear summer day over Washington state provided the International Space Station crew the chance to observe Mt. Rainier—a volcano that overlooks the Seattle metropolitan area and the 2.5 million people who live there. In addition to its presence on the Seattle skyline, Mt. Rainier also looms large among volcanoes in the United States.
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Effigy Mounds National Monument
Published September 11, 2005
The park was created in October 1949 to protect a small area along the banks of the Mississippi River where Native Americans built earthen mounds for millennia.
Tonto National Monument
Published September 4, 2005
The most striking feature is Roosevelt Lake, an artificial lake created by the construction of Roosevelt Dam across the Salt River. The National Monument is surrounded by the Tonto National Forest, which includes low plains, desert scrubland, and alpine pine forests.
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