Alaska’s Glacier Bay National Park. Photo by Mike Holoway. Tweeted by the US Department of the Interior, 12/18/14.
New Mexico’s El Morro National Monument. A reliable waterhole hidden at the base of a sandstone bluff made El Morro (the headland) a popular campsite for hundreds of years. Here, Ancestral Puebloans, Spanish and American travelers carved over 2,000 signatures, dates, messages, and petroglyphs. Tweeted by the US Department of the Interior, 12/23/14.
California’s Lassen Volcanic National Park. Tweeted by the US Department of the Interior, 12/24/14.
Yosemite National Park in the snow. Tweeted by the US Department of the Interior, 12/25/14.
A dusting of snow turns Yosemite National Park in California into a winter wonderland. Ed Cooper captured this winter view of the southwest face of El Capitan — the largest monolith of granite in the world. Rising more than 3,000 feet above Yosemite Valley’s floor, El Capitan is a favorite for experienced rock climbers. Tweeted by the US Department of the Interior, 12/19/14.
Yosemite in winter. Posted on Tumblr by the US Department of the Interior, 12/28/14.
