Winners of the 2016 HCN reader photography contest
Audience and editor favorites from our national parks.
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Reader choice: Crater Lake National Park, Oregon
Dave Taube -
Editor choice: Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
John Herrick -
Big Bend National Park, Texas
Joseph Drake -
Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
John Bartholow -
Zion National Park, Utah
Michael Huckaby -
Olympic National Park, Washington
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Death Valley National Park, California
Dana Thomas -
Yosemite National Park, California
Jim Dublinski -
Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska
Taylor Hines -
Arches National Park
Vicky Ramakka -
Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
Rick Box -
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Chris Bachman -
Redwood National and State Parks, California
Richard Ernst -
Wrangell - St Elias National Park and Preserve, Alaska
Chuck Graham -
Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
Debbie Schwartznau -
Death Valley National Park, California
Abby Mattson -
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Randy Stephens -
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Jenny Morey
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.