Is the Hoh Rain Forest in Olympic National Park the most breathtaking place you've seen in the National Park System?/Rebecca Latson file
Pop quiz in late March as we wait for summer: Where is the most breathtaking view in the National Park System?
What would you say? Is it...
- Old Faithful erupting at Yellowstone National Park?
- Watching the "firefall" in Yosemite National Park?
- Gazing into the maw of Grand Canyon National Park from either rim?
- Standing on the lip of Halemaʻumaʻu crater during an eruption of Kīleaua in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park?
- Viewing sunrise from the summit of Haleakalā National Park?
- Looking up at Grand Canyon National Park from a float trip?
- The craggy horizon created by the Teton Range in Grand Teton National Park during sunrise?
- Delicate Arch in Arches National Park?
- Watching sunrise from Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park?
Those are just some of the possibilities. Give us your best thoughts!
Comments
Sunrise at death valley
The best I have experienced is from Sahale Arm Glacier Camp in the North Cascades. Nothing else compares!
I truly enjoy viewing Squaretop Mtn over Green River Lakes in the Wind River Range of Wyoming. Never get tired of it.
Okay, it's not NPS, so let me offer #2: Canyonlands NP: The Green River overlooks in the Island, and hiking the Chesler Park Loop in the Needles. Just wild...and used to be rather quiet.
#3. Watching sunup and sunset in the campground in the Chisos Basin in Big Bend NP. It's amazing that such a place exists in the Texas desert.
Valley view in Yosemite or the Arrigetch Peaks or Logan Pass
Peering into the crater at Haleakala National Park, Maui, Hawaii from the rim or from a helicopter
Strike Valley Overlook in Capitol Reef, Clouds Rest in Yosemite, Point Sublime and Lipan Point at Grand Canyon.
Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
Watching the trumpeter swans and their offspring on the Madison River by Mt. Haynes