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!
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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
The first glimpses of El Capitan on an early dawn morning drive into the valley... Yosemite falls at full roar... Hayden valley in the early morning
Agreed!
Big Bend NP - looking out the South Rim towards Mexico.
Gazing at the high mountain peaks reaching for the sky and the miles of thick green forest below from Going to the Sun Highway (not as the driver of course!) GNP Montana.
Didn't the firefall in Yosemite actually end in about 1966?
Sunrise from Clingman's Dome in thr Smokies - particularly in late fall.
Sunrise from Clingman's Dome in thr Smokies - particularly in late fall.
Sunrise and sunset at Bryce Canyon National Park. #2: Delicate Arch and the entire Arches National Park trail.
Grand Teton Natl Park: Most breathtaking view, from just about anywhere in the Park.
Katmai Natl Park & Preserve: Most breathtaking experience, needing to step off the hiking trail so the Brown bear mama and 3 cubs can walk past you within 25 yards.
The most breathtaking view for me was in Denali National Park. We went on a tour of the glaciers and mountains in a small plane and landed on Ruth Glacier right below Mt. Denali. The view of the Ruth Glacier amphitheater was one of THE most beautiful things I have ever seen! It's huge, and almost undescribable because you just have to witness it in person!
The summer wildflower display at Mt. Rainier NP is unbelievablly beautiful!Z5
Flying over Denali on a sunlit day and landing on Ruth Glacier just below the peak.
Katmai NP watching the Grizzlies at Brooks Falls.
The view from the Keyhole on the way to Longs Peak.
Coming into the Jackson Hole Valley from Rt.26 near Moran. The panoramic view of the Tetons is jaw-dropping!