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Antelope Canyon
LeChee, Arizona
A narrow slot canyon in the Navajo Nation near Page, Arizona, with smooth, wave-like sandstone walls lit by shafts of sunlight.
Natural features in United States of America
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Arches National Park
Moab, Utah
More than 2,000 natural stone arches in red rock desert near Moab, Utah.
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Bryce Canyon National Park
Utah
A series of natural amphitheatres filled with thousands of orange and white rock spires called hoodoos.
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Central Park, New York
Manhattan, New York
A park of 341 hectares in the middle of Manhattan, designed in the 1850s, with lakes, meadows, woodland and landmarks such as Bethesda Terrace and Fo…
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Denali National Park, Alaska
Alaska
A vast wilderness around Denali, the highest mountain in North America at 6,190 m.
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Everglades National Park
Florida
The largest subtropical wilderness in the USA, a vast 'river of grass' of sawgrass marshes, mangroves and cypress swamps, home to alligators, manatee…
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Glacier National Park
Montana
A wild mountain park in Montana with glacier-carved valleys, turquoise lakes and grizzly bears.
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Grand Canyon South Rim
Grand Canyon, Arizona
One of the world's great natural wonders, a canyon 1.6 km deep and up to 29 km wide, carved by the Colorado River.
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Grand Teton National Park
Moose Wilson Road, Wyoming
Jagged granite peaks rising abruptly above lakes and the sagebrush valley of Jackson Hole, just south of Yellowstone.
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Hanalei Bay, Kauaʻi
Princeville, Hawaii
A wide crescent of sand on Kauaʻi's north shore, backed by green mountains with waterfalls streaming down them after rain.
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Hanauma Bay Nature Preserve
East Honolulu, Hawaii
A curved bay inside an old volcanic crater on Oʻahu's south-east coast, protected since 1967 as a marine life conservation area.
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Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park
Volcano, Hawaii
Two of the world's most active volcanoes, Kīlauea and Mauna Loa, on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi.
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Monument Valley
Utah
Red sandstone buttes towering over the desert on the Arizona-Utah border, in the Navajo Nation, the backdrop to countless Western films.
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Niagara Falls (US side)
Niagara Falls, New York
The American and Bridal Veil Falls, part of the great Niagara Falls on the border with Canada.
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Redwood National and State Parks
Westhaven-Moonstone, California
Forests of coast redwoods, the tallest trees on earth, some over 110 m, along the foggy northern California coast, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Waimea Canyon, Kauaʻi
Kekaha, Hawaii
Called the 'Grand Canyon of the Pacific' by Mark Twain: a gorge about 16 km long and up to 900 m deep, with red, orange and green walls and waterfalls.
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Yellowstone National Park
Wyoming
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 eru…
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Yosemite National Park
Yosemite Valley, California
A glacial valley in the Sierra Nevada with granite cliffs such as El Capitan and Half Dome, and waterfalls including Yosemite Falls, one of the talle…
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Acadia National Park
Bar Harbor, Maine
A national park on the rocky coast of Maine, mostly on Mount Desert Island, with granite mountains, lakes and 72 km of historic carriage roads for cy…
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Death Valley National Park
California
The hottest, driest and lowest national park in the USA, with Badwater Basin salt flats 86 m below sea level, sand dunes at Mesquite Flat, colourful …
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Bryson City, North Carolina
The most visited national park in the USA, on the border of Tennessee and North Carolina, with forested mountains, misty valleys, waterfalls, black b…
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Olympic National Park
Washington
Three parks in one in Washington State: the moss-draped Hoh Rain Forest, wild Pacific beaches with sea stacks such as Rialto and Ruby Beach, and the …
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Rocky Mountain National Park
Estes Park, Colorado
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…