Photos by Phil Schermeister unless otherwise noted
NPS = National Park Service
Cover
Tim Fitzharris/Minden Pictures
Back Cover
(UP LE), NPS; (UP RT), iStock.com/Eric Foltz; (LO LE) © Dr. Caroline Rogers/NPS; (LO RT), David Baselt
East
1.1, iStock.com/Eric Foltz; 1.2, NPS/John Brooks; 1.3, NPS/Judd Patterson; 1.4, NPS/Thomas M. Strom; 1.5, Serge Skiba/Shutterstock; 1.6, NPS/jt-fineart; 1.6, NPS; 1.7, NPS; 1.8, NPS; 1.9-1.10 (artwork), Richard Schlecht; 1.11, NPS/John F. Mitchell; 1.12, Courtesy of the U.S. Forest Service; 1.13 and 1.14, Courtesy of the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation; 1.15, Robert Hankins; 1.16, Courtesy of the U.S. Forest Service; 1.17, Courtesy of the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation; 1.18, © Dr. Caroline Rogers/NPS; 1.19, Jo Ann Snover/Shutterstock; 1.20, © Dr. Caroline Rogers/NPS
Midwest
2.1, iStock.com/Eric Foltz; 2.2, NPS; 2.3, Mark Baldwin/Shutterstock; 2.4, iStock.com/-A1A-; 2.5, Bureau of Land Management; 2.6, chuckhaney.com; 2.7, iStock.com/lrh847; 2.8, Todd Gallion/USFWS; 2.9, Cross Ranch State Park; 2.10, Sully Creek State Park; 2.11, Per Breiehagen/Getty Images; 2.12, NPS
South Central
3.1, Ian Shive/TandemStock.com; 3.2, iStock.com/nickrlake; 3.3, iStock.com/David Hughes; 3.4, iStock.com/Eric Foltz; 3.5, iStock.com/Peter Mukherjee; 3.6, iStock.com/RoseMaryBush; 3.7, Justin Britten; 3.8, NPS; 3.9, BLM.gov; 3.10, BLM SE New Mexico; 3.11, Bernadette Madison; 3.12, NPS
Southwest
4.1, iStockphoto/RJSorensen; 4.2, iStock,com/Robert Ingelhart; 4.3, Ciurzynski/Shutterstock; 4.4, Kennan Harvey/Aurora Photos/Alamy; 4.5, NPS/Neal Herbert; 4.6, NPS/Neal Herbert; 4.7, NPS/Neal Herbert; 4.8, Nick Eason; 4.9, NPS/Bob Moffitt; 4.10, Michael Hare/Shutterstock; 4.11, George H.H. Huey/Alamy; 4.12, Bill Stevens, BLM Moab Field Office; 4.13, SCPhotos/Alamy; 4.14, iStock.com/rwhitacre; 4.15, iStock.com/Avid Creative, Inc.; 4.16, Bcbounders/Dreamstime.com; 4.17, NPS; 4.18, Kenny Tong/Dreamstime.com; 4.19, NPS; 4.20, col/Shutterstock; 4.21, iStock.com/ebettini; 4.22, iStock.com/TexPhoto;; 4.23, Steven Castro/Shutterstock; 4.24, NPS
Rocky Mountians
5.1, Danielle Lehle; 5.2, NPS; 5.3, Danielle Lehle; 5.4, Jaypetersen/Dreamstime.com; 5.5, USDA Forest Service; 5.6, NPS/Alamy; 5.7, USFWS; 5.8, Sara Domek; 5.9, NPS; 5.10, iStock.com/kojihirano; 5.11, istock.com/kjschoen
Pacific Northwest
6.1, NPS; 6.2, NPS; 6.3, iStock.com/Arpad Benedek; 6.4, NPS/Wendy Swee; 6.5, NPS; 6.6, idreamphoto/Shutterstock; 6.7, iStock.com/Mark Skerbinek; 6.8, C_Eng-Wong Photography/Shutterstock; 6.9, Douglas Peebles Photography/Alamy; 6.9, Eric Nishibayashi; 6.10, rolphphoto.com; 6.11, Kevin Ebi/Alamy; 6.12, NPS; 6.12, NPS; 6.13, Dave G. Houser/Alamy; 6.14, Yongyut Kumsri/Shutterstock
Pacific Southwest
7.1, Dave Menke; 7.2, Kevin J. Sperl; 7.3, iStock.com/toos; 7.4, NPS; 7.5, Oregon Parks and Recreation Department; 7.6, WorldFoto/Alamy; 7.7, David Baselt; 7.8, iStock.com/Eric Foltz
Alaska
8.1, Paxson Woelber, Expedition Arguk; 8.2, Michael Christopher Brown/National Geographic Creative; 8.3, NPS; 8.4, Alan Wu (photo at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:One_of_the_many_ocean_inlets_in_Misty_Fjords_National_Monument.jpg and license at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/); 8.5, Design Pics Inc/Alamy; 8.6, iStock.com/Jerry Moorman; 8.7, Sergey Uryadnikov/Shutterstock; 8.8, M. Cornelius/Shutterstock; 8.9, Design Pics Inc/Alamy; 8.10, NPS; 8.11, NPS; 8.12, NPS/Kaitlin Thoresen; 8.13, NPS; 8.14, Design Pics Inc/Alamy; 8.15, NPS/Jeanette Mills; 8.16, NPS; 8.17, Carl Donohue/Skolai Images; 8.18, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park & Preserve
The park icons used throughout this book were designed for the National Geographic National Parks app and are the property of the National Geographic Society.