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3D and Photographic Tours Featuring Park Geology and Natural History

Click on a national park below to start an image tour.
Or, use a Location Map, Thumbnail Gallery index, or selected Subject index.
Standard photography websites mirror the 3D image websites.
 Name that park!
Explore, interpret, and identify selected park landscapes with this online photo quiz game
Where's the Hayward Fault?
Tour one of North America's most dangerous faults in California's East Bay Area
American Indian Indians
of the Southwest, 1871-1875
Yosemite historic images
Parks Parks of the Colorado Plateau (Four Corners) Region- Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah (click on an image to visit a park) Park Thumbnail Images
Parks of the Pacific Northwest (Oregon and Washington)
Pacific Northwest Parks
Parks on the Big Island of Hawaii
Parks of Hawaii
Desert Ecosystem Parks
Desert Ecosystems
Parks Underground
Parks with underground trails
Arches National Park
Aztec Ruins National Monument
Big Bend National Park
Bryce Canyon National Park
Canyon de Chelly National Monument
Canyonlands National Park
Capitol Reef National Park
Capulin Volcano National Park
Carrizo Plain National Monument (BLM)
Carlsbad Caverns National Park
Chaco Culture National Historic Park
City of Rocks National Reserve
Colorado National Monument
Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area (NFS)
Crater Lake National Park
Death Valley National Park
Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area
Dinosaur National Monument (historical and recent)
El Malpais National Monument
El Morro National Monument
Fire Island National Seashore
Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area (Powell Survey, 1871)
Fossil Butte National Monument
Gateway National Recreation Area (NYC)
Sandy Hook, Breezy Point, Jamaica Bay
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
Golden Gate National Recreation Area
Golden Spike National Monument
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Recreation Area (BLM)
Grand Coulee/Sun River Lakes (Washington State Parks)
Grand Canyon National Park
Grand Tetons National Park
Great Basin National Park
Guadalupe Mountains National Park
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
Hovenweep National Monument
John Day Fossil Beds National Monument
Joshua Tree National Park
Kaloko-Honokohau National Historic Park
Lake Mead National Recreation Area
Lava Beds National Monument
Mammoth Cave National Park
Mesa Verde National Park
Mojave National Preserve
Mount Shasta (NFS)
Mount Rainier National Park
Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument (NFS)
Natural Bridges National Monument
Navajo National Monument
North Cascades National Park
Olympic National Park
Petrified Forest National Park
Pinnacles National Monument
Pipe Spring National Monument
Point Reyes National Seashore
Puuhonua o Honaunau National Historic Park
Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site
Rainbow Bridge National Monument
Saguaro National Park
Sunset Crater National Monument
Walnut Canyon National Monument
Wupatki National Monument
Yellowstone National Park (historic and recent)
Yosemite National Park (historic)
Zion National Park (recent & Powell Survey, 1872-3)
 

Other park-related resources: National Parks map
See the Map Index

Park Stratigraphy of the Colorado Plateau - a resource guide to regional geologic units
Maps of the 4 Corners region of the American Southwest - Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah
American Indian Indians of the Southwest, 1871-1975: a 3D Image tour of Early Photography Taken During the U.S. Geological and Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian and the Powell Survey of the Colorado River Canyons.
Powell Survey Expeditions (1871-1872) of the Colorado River Canyons (original stereo photography)
 
Geology of the New York City Region - visit 74 parks and areas of geologic interest in the NY-NJ-CN region

Where's the San Andreas Fault?
A Guidebook to Tracking the Fault on Public Lands in the San Francisco Bay Region

Golden Gate National Recreation Area
3D Landscapes and Geology of the San Francisco Bay region
Where's the Hayward Fault? A Green Guide To The Fault
The San Andreas Fault System (California) -USGS Professional Paper 1515 (website version)

The 3D images are anaglyphs and require red and cyan 3D viewing glasses. These full-size images average 500 KB each and may be slow to download.

3D glasses

A search on the World Wide Web will yield many sites about anaglyphs and where to get 3D glasses.
To learn more about how anaglyphs (3D images) are made, click here.

Historic stereo photography

Click here to see historic 3D photography of the Powell Survey Expeditions (1871-1872)
of the Colorado River Canyons. Also see historic stereo images of American Indians of the Southwest,
Yellowstone, and Yosemite

 Colorado River near Phantom Ranch
Take a virtual hike or take a
raft trip to the bottom of the Grand Canyon!

Suggestions For Teachers and Students - How to use this website?

Animals, Vegetables, Minerals Crowd in USGS auditorium in Menlo Park, California wearing 3D glasses
Animals, vegetables, minerals, and more!

All color photography on this website was taken by Phil Stoffer (USGS) unless otherwise stated on the image caption text.
All images are "public domain." Click here for more information regarding copyright and fair use.

Additional parks and resources are added to this website as they become available.

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