A big tree
Galen Clark first came upon a grove of some 200 giant sequoias in 1857 in what is now the southernmost part of Yosemite National Park. He named it Mariposa Grove and...
Bird’s-eye view of the Grand Canyon
This aerial photograph of the Grand Canyon in Arizona was taken on April 16, 1949. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed the Grand Canyon a national monument in...
Cathedral Spires, Yosemite Valley
So spectacular are the landscapes of California’s Yosemite Valley that San Francisco photographer Carleton Watkins invented in 1861 a larger format to capture its...
Cliff Palace
This is a May 1972 photograph of Cliff Palace, the largest ruin in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado. Mesa Verde was home to the Ancestral Pueblo people who lived...
Lower Yosemite Falls
So spectacular are the landscapes of California’s Yosemite Valley that in 1861 San Francisco photographer Carleton Watkins invented in 1861 a larger format to...
Mount Rushmore from above
This aerial photograph, taken on October 16, 1954, shows Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The top of the colossal Mount Rushmore National...
Old Faithful erupts
Famed photographer Ansel Adams took this photograph of the “Old Faithful” geyser erupting in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming in the early 1940s. Adams was...