Yellowstone National Park

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Yellowstone National Park

West Yellowstone · United States

Yellowstone National Park is the world's first national park, established in 1872, and sits atop one of the planet's largest volcanic calderas. It is home to more geothermal features than anywhere else on Earth, including Old Faithful geyser, the Grand Prismatic Spring, and thousands of hot springs. The park's vast wilderness supports wolves, grizzly bears, bison, and elk, making it a premier wildlife-watching destination.

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West Yellowstone · United States

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Grand Prismatic Spring
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Grand Prismatic Spring

Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park is the largest hot spring in the United States and the third largest in the world, measuring 90 meters in diameter and up to 50 meters deep. Its vividly colored rings — blue in the center graduating through teal, green, yellow, and orange to a deep red at the edges — are caused by heat-loving bacteria (thermophiles) that form pigmented mats at different temperatures. The spring is best appreciated from an overlook trail that provides the aerial perspective needed to see its full rainbow.

West Yellowstone · United States
Grand Teton National Park
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Grand Teton National Park

Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming is one of the most stunning mountain landscapes in North America, where the jagged granite Teton Range rises abruptly from the flat Jackson Hole valley without any foothills — an almost vertical ascent of 2,100 meters from the valley floor to the Grand Teton summit at 4,198 meters. The park's 320 km of hiking trails, pristine lakes, and exceptional wildlife viewing (moose, grizzly bears, wolves, and bison) make it one of America's most rewarding wilderness destinations.

Jackson · United States
Bryce Canyon National Park
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Bryce Canyon National Park

Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah is not actually a canyon but an amphitheater of thousands of orange, red, and white hoodoos (eroded limestone spires) created by a remarkable combination of geology and freezing cycles. The Bryce Amphitheater's main viewpoints — Inspiration Point, Bryce Point, and Sunset Point — overlook a labyrinth of hoodoos that seems to extend to the horizon. The park is also one of the best places in the American West to view dark skies, with minimal light pollution across its high plateau.

Bryce Canyon City · United States
Zion National Park
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Zion National Park

Zion National Park (second reference) is Utah's most visited national park, a canyon of soaring Navajo sandstone cliffs in shades of cream, pink, and red carved by the Virgin River over millions of years. The Angels Landing summit hike — with its final chain-assisted scramble along a knife-edge ridge to a summit 454 meters above the canyon floor — is America's most exhilarating day hike. The Narrows, where hikers wade through the river between 300-meter walls barely 10 meters apart, is equally extraordinary.

Springdale · United States

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