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Death Valley National Park, California -
Zion National Park, Utah -
Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona -
Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming -
Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado -
Reader choice: Crater Lake National Park, Oregon -
Big Bend National Park, Texas -
Yosemite National Park, California -
Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska -
Arches National Park -
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming -
Editor choice: Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado -
Wrangell – St Elias National Park and Preserve, Alaska -
Death Valley National Park, California -
Redwood National and State Parks, California -
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming -
Olympic National Park, Washington -
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Just in time for the National Park Service’s 100-year anniversary, our readers submitted nearly 300 images to our annual photo contest. While scenes from parks all over the West showed up in the contest, photos from Yellowstone National Park seemed to be most prevalent. You can see our readers’ expression of the beauty in the parks and the joy they clearly inspired in the gallery of reader and editor favorites above.
See all the images submitted to this year’s contest.
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Winners of the 2016 HCN reader photography contest.
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Winners of the 2016 HCN reader photography contest
by Staff, High Country News
October 3, 2016
