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Badlands National Park
Badlands National Park in South Dakota is dusty jumble of hills and tight winding canyons. Sometimes the rough landscape is corrugated by soft round hills, other times it is serrated by rows of sharp spiny peaks. The rocky hills give way abruptly to the perfectly flat prairie of nearby "Grasslands National Monument", where the ground races the sky to the horizon. For more photos, and information go to the Badlands Page |
Mt. Rushmore National Monument
Mt. Rushmore National Monument is perhaps the most famous US landmark after the Statue of Liberty. The faces of four former presidents: Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt are carved into the side of a 5,725 foot mountain in the Black Hills of South Dakota. For more photos, and information go to the Mt. Rushmore Page |
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Devils Tower National Monument
Devils Tower is a 850 foot high cylinder or rock abruptly jutting up from the pine forested hills of north-eastern Wyoming. It is the rocky core of a volcano that has been eroded away. The cooling rock crystallized into hexagonal colums, like a bundle of wires. It was Seen in the movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" as the site where the alien mothership lands. Devils Tower is in North Eastern Wyoming, not far from Badlands NP, and Mt. Rushmore. For more photos, and information go to the Devils Tower Page |
Grand Tetons National Park
For more photos go to the
Grand Tetons Page
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Yellowstone National Park
For more photos go to the
Yellowstone Page
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