Huntington Beach California

Huntington Beach

Is a seaside city in Orange County in Southern California. Huntington Beach is known for its long 9.5 mile stretch of sandy beach, mild climate, excellent surfing, and beach culture. The ocean waves are enhanced by a natural effect caused by the edge diffraction of open ocean swells around the island of Catalina.

Courtney Conlogue, Hurley US Open of Surfing, Huntington Beach Pier

Swells generated predominantly from the North Pacific in winter and from a combination of Southern Hemisphere storms and hurricanes in the summer focus on Huntington Beach creating consistent surf all year long. Huntington beach is often referred to as "Surf City", because of this high profile event, its history and culture of surfing.

Virginia Beach

Virginia Beach

Is an independent  city located in the U.S state of Virginia. Although mostly suburban in character, it is the most populous city in Virginia, having grown larger than the more urban neighboring city of Norfolk, and is the 39th most populous city in the U.S.

Michael Dunphy, the scorpion from Virginia Beach, stings a lip. Photo: Jimmicane

Located on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, Virginia Beach is a resort city with miles of beaches and hundreds of hotels, motels, and restaurants along its oceanfront. Every year the city hosts the East Coast Surfing Championships as well as the North American Sand Soccer  Championships, a bieach soccer tournament.

Rocky Mountains

Rocky Mountains

The majestic Rocky Mountains are a major tourist location in the western United States. The Rocky Mountain are a major mountain range in western North America. The mountains stretch more than 3,000 miles from the northernmost part of British Columbia, in western canada, to New Mexico, in the southwestern United States. within the North American Cordillera, the Rockies are somewhat distinct from the Pacific Coast Ranges and The Cascada Range and Sierra Nevada which all lie further to the west.

Hiking vacation in Rocky Mountain National Park By Dennis Flood

Yellowstone, the first national park in the world!

Yellowstone National Park

Is a national park located primarily in the U.S. state of Wyoming, although it also extends into Montana and Idaho. It was established by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses Grant on March 1, 1872. Yellowstone, widely held to be the first national park in the world, is known for its wildlife and its many geothermal features, especially "Old Faithfull Geyser", one of the most popular features in the park. 

Mammoth hot spring in Yellowstone

Yellowstone has many types of ecosystems, but the subalpine forest is most abundant. It is part of the south Central Rockies forest ecoregion.

Native Americans have lived in the Yellowstone region for at least 11,000 years.

Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River

Camping in Yosemite

A Yosemite National Park video

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Hawaii Volcanoes National Park

Hawaii Volcanoes National Park

Established in 1916, is a United States National Park located in the U.S. States of Hawaii on the island of Hawaii. The park encompasses 333,000 acres from the summit of Maunaloa(Is one of five volcanoes that form the island of Hawaii in the U.S. State of Hawaii in the pacific Ocean) to the sea. It encompasses two active volcanoes: Kilauea(One of the world´s most active volcanoes) and Mauna Loa(The world´s most massive subaerial volcano).

Here you´ll find 150 miles of hiking trails through volcanic craters, scalded deserts and rainforests as well as a museum, petroglyphs, a walk-in lava tube and two active vocanoes. 

The park gives scientists insight into the birth of the Hawaiian Islands and ongoing studies into the processes of vulcanism. For visitors, the park offers dramatic volcanic landscapes as well as glimpses of rare flora and fauna.

Wonderful things in Yosemite National Park

Yosemite National Park

Is a United States National Park spanning eastern portions of Tuolumne, Mariposa, and Madera counties in the central  eastern portion of the U.S state of California. The park, which is managed by the National Park Service, covers an area of 761.268 acres (3.080.74 km²) and reaches  across the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountain chain.

The view of Yosemite Valley from Tunnel View in Yosemite National Park

Designated a World Heritage Site in 1984, Yosemite is internationally recognized for its spectacular granite cliffs, waterfalls, clear streams, Giant Sequoia groves, and biological diversity. Almost 95% of the park is designated wilderness. Yosemite was central to the development of the national park idea. First Galen Clark and others lobbied to protect Yosemite Valley from development, ultimately leading to President Abraham Lincoln´s signing the Yosemite Grant in 1864. Later, John Muir led a successful movement to establish a larger national park encompassing not just the valley, but surrounding montains and forest as well-paving the way for the United States national park system.