Special Feature: The Top Twenty Photos

In celebration of posting our 1,000th online photo, we present our Top Twenty Favorites.

The winner of the Print Raffle is Dorathea Schneider of Wisconsin. She received an 11 x 14 print of our Wildflower image (photo #1).

FIRST PLACE - [Photo # 8]
From Montana, Swiftcurrent Lake in Glacier National Park's Many Glacier Region.

The photos were taken by Joseph Sprince, American West Travelogue editor. Four adjacent 4 x 6 photo prints were painstakingly built into this seamless composite image.

SECOND PLACE - [Photo # 1]
Our best photo from the spectacular 2001 desert wildflower season in southern Arizona. This hillside in Cave Creek Canyon north of Phoenix is carpeted in Mexican Gold Poppies with stately saguaros in the background. Check out our Wildflower Reports.

The photo was taken by Gerald Allen, our resident photographer.

THIRD PLACE - [Photo # 3]
A laser of sunlight in Antelope Canyon, a spectacular slot canyon in northern Arizona near Lake Powell. At mid-day, sunbeams work their way into this narrow crack creating amazing visual effects as seen here.

The photo was taken by Gerald Allen, our resident photographer.

[Photo # 2] Another surreal scene from Antelope Canyon, a spectacular slot canyon in northern Arizona near Lake Powell.

[Photo # 4] A scenic vista in Utah's Grand Staircase Escalante country. This photo was taken on the Calf Creek Falls Trail. A shot of the falls is also on this page.

[Photo # 5] Early morning provides the best photo opportunities on sand dunes. Death Valley National Park, California.

[Photo # 6] The heart of the Teton Range towers thousands of feet above Grand Teton National Park's fabulous Cascade Canyon. The waterfall in the dead center of this picture is perhaps hundreds of feet tall. During spring melt, there are many such waterfalls.

[Photo # 7] The "Million Dollar View" at California's Ragged Point, on the central coast. This part of the coast is known as Big Sur. It's famous scenic drive spans one hundred miles of sheer cliffs.

[Photo # 9] Glacier National Park's Lake McDonald.

[Photo # 10] The world's largest natural bridge, Rainbow Bridge, Utah, as tall as the U.S. Capitol.

[Photo # 11] The gallows at Arizona's Tombstone Court House State Park was lasted used prior to 1912.

[Photo # 12] Another great view of the coast, near Point Sur, California, a short distance south of Carmel.

[Photo # 13] More great wildflowers from Southern Arizona in our wildflower reports.

[Photo # 14] Mt. Wilbur, on the Swiftcurrent Pass Trail, Glacier National Park, Montana.

[Photo # 15] The elephant seals of Point Piedras Blancas.

[Photo # 16] Monument Valley Tribal Park. Voted 1st Place.

[Photo # 17] Calf Creek Falls, Utah. Authors' favorite. Print was grand prize in our recent raffle.

[Photo # 18] Tetons from Snake River Overlook, Grand Teton National Park. 2nd Place.

[Photo # 19] Grand Canyon National Park. Voted 3rd Place.

[Photo # 20] Delicate Arch, Arches National Park, Utah. Finished 4th.