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Mount Desert Mountains, worn down by countless centuries of erosion.
Great granite cliffs, thwarted by the pounding surf at their bases, rise
from the ocean. Nowhere along the Atlantic seaboard is the “stern and
rockbound coast” more artistic. More than 15 peaks, mostly bare at
their summits, are forested with spruce, fir, pine and northern hardwood
trees. Some 500 varieties of wildflowers, consisting of many
Arctic species, grow in the park environs. Acadia National Park also is
a sanctuary for a multiplicity of birds, animals and plants.
Adirondack Park, New York
Adirondack Park encircles about two-thirds of upstate New York,
embracing some 6 million acres of both private and state land, nearly
half of it is wilderness. Physical features range from craggy mountains
and sheer cliffs to low rolling uplands, beaver meadows, swamps and
grassy plains.
Amistad Reservoir, Texas
The 67,000-acre expanse and reservoir of the Amistad National
Recreation Area is northwest of Del Rio via US 90. Amistad is an
outgrowth of the Amistad Dam water-storage project a collective venture
of the United States and Mexico. The boundaries of the region
extend 74 miles up the Rio Grande and portions of the Pecos and
Devils rivers. More than 6 miles in length, the dam creates
85-mile-long Lake Amistad.
Arches National Park, Utah
Arches National Park, a rugged wilderness, contains the largest number
of natural stone arches in the country. More than 1,800 arches and
many redrock canyons, spires, fins, and balancing rocks. The erosion of
the Entrada Sandstone, a 300-foot-thick layer of rock that was deposited
as sand 150 million years ago, created these formations. The arches
were formed by the weathering of openings in vertical slabs of sandstone.
It is particularly photogenic in the morning and evening light,
when the sandstone formations take on a fiery radiance. Many high-
Arches N.P., Utah
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