Some of our Favorite Pictures of some of our Favorite / Special Places
Yes, most are in National Parks. Yes, some places have multiple pictures. Most notably is Olympic National Park, one of our favorites…so many visits, so many special places…of the “outdoors/scenic” variety.
Pictures Grouped (to jump ahead):
Olympic National Park
Where we took our first camping trip and have taken multiple guests visiting the Northwest.
A few other “Special” (to us) National Parks
And more National Parks (alphabetically)
Apostle Islands-Raspberry Island Lighthouse (and Fog Horn House & Boat House (Sept 2024) 
Big Bend-Chisos Mountain Sunset (Jan 2015) 
Big Cypress-Egret & Alligator living in harmony (Jan 2024) 
Big Cypress-Swamp (Jan 2024) 
Cape Hatteras-at Cape Point, where the Labrador Current & Gulf Stream meet (Oct 2023) 
Channel Islands-Super Pod of Dolphins (Jan 2020) 
Chiricahua-View of “Standing up Rocks”, from Lower Rhyolite Trail (Feb 2023) 
Dinosaur-Steamboat Rock on the Green River at Echo Park (Jul 2022) 
Dinosaur-View of the Green River for lunch at Rainbow Park (Jul 2022) 
Death Valley-Artist Drive (Dec 2012) 
Dry Tortugas-View from inside Fort Jefferson (Feb 2015) 
Glacier-Lake Sherburne (Aug 2012) 
Grand Canyon (Dec 2012) 
Grand Tetons-Jenny Lake (Oct 2018) 
Great Smokies, at the Mountain Farm Museum (Mar 2024) 
Isle Royale-View of Rock Harbor on Rock Harbor Trail (Sept 2024) 
John Day Fossil Beds (Aug 2019) 
Joshua Tree (Jan 2012) 
Lassen Volcanic-Chaos Crags & Lassen Peak (Oct 2019) 
Lake Chelan-view of North Cascades (Jun 2019) 
Organ Pipe Cactus (Feb 2020) 
Pictured Rocks-Chapel Rock from North Country NST along the cliffs above Lake Superior (Aug 2024) 
Pictured Rocks-View from Lake Superior on Sunset Cruise (Aug 2024) 
Pinnacles (Jan 2020) 
Redwoods (Jan 2020) 
Rocky Mountains-Sprague Lake (Jul 2022) 
Rocky Mountains-Cow Moose (Jul 2022) 
Saguaro-Cactus Drive (Jan 2015) 
Sleeping Bear Dunes-View from Empire Bluff (Aug 2024) 
Voyageurs-Bark Canoe at Rainy Lake (Sept 2024 
White Sands (Jan 2015) 
Yellowstone-Bison Roadblock, leaving West Entrance (Oct 2018) 
Yosemite Valley (Christmas 2012)
State Parks & More
Baxter State Park, Maine – Katahdin View from Sentinel Peak 
Cape Perpetua – Best View on the Oregon Coast 
Custer State Park, South Dakota – Sylvan Lake 
Lake Tahoe Sunset-from Nevada 
Mount Shasta-just driving to California 
Mount Washington – View over Presidential Range & Cog Railway 
Oswald West State Park, Oregon – Hike to Cape Falcon 
Superstition Mountains – near Apache Junction, Arizona 
Fort Stevens State Park, Oregon-Wreck of the Peter Iredale 
Mark at Trinity Ground Zero Monument 
Very Large Array