The world's first national park, founded in 1872, on a volcanic plateau with more than half of the world's geysers, including Old Faithful, which erupts about every 90 minutes, the rainbow-coloured Grand Prismatic Spring, and the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. Bison, elk, wolves and bears roam the Lamar and Hayden valleys.
Stay on boardwalks in thermal areas. Book lodges a year ahead. Most roads close in winter.
Jagged granite peaks rising abruptly above lakes and the sagebrush valley of Jackson Hole, just south of Yellowstone.
A wild mountain park in Montana with glacier-carved valleys, turquoise lakes and grizzly bears.
Alpine scenery above Estes Park in Colorado, where Trail Ridge Road climbs to 3,713 m, the highest continuous paved road in the USA, across tundra wi…
More than 2,000 natural stone arches in red rock desert near Moab, Utah.
A series of natural amphitheatres filled with thousands of orange and white rock spires called hoodoos.
A deep red and cream sandstone canyon carved by the Virgin River in southern Utah.
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