Arches National Park

Visit Arches and discover a landscape of contrasting colors, landforms and textures unlike any other in the world. The park has over 2,000 natural stone arches, in addition to hundreds of soaring pinnacles, massive fins and giant balanced rocks. This ...

The Advanced Redoubt

The Advanced Redoubt of Fort Barrancas was built between 1845 and 1870 as part of a defensive network for the Pensacola Navy Yard. Forts Pickens, McRee, and Barrancas protected the entrance to the harbor; the Advanced Redoubt was constructed to ...

Foster's Farm

Philip Foster, one of Oregon’s earliest pioneers, was a leader in the establishment of Oregon. His farm and home in Eagle Creek played an important part in the history of the Barlow Road, which followed the south side of Mt. ...

Barlow Summit

Ascending from the White River, the emigrants turned up Barlow Creek to try to drive on as far as the base of Barlow Road. The forest was dense. Nowhere could the starving livestock find fodder. Repeatedly the emigrants tried to ...

East Gate Creek

West of the Tygh valley, the emigrants moved along a grassy ridge about 10 miles to Rock Creek, a tributary to the White River. From there they entered a small canyon at the east end of a half-mile long meadow, ...

Laurel Hill

Laurel Hill was infamous in the guidebooks used by emigrants heading west. Originally a series of at least three chutes, wagons were tied to trees by ropes, or held back in the steep chutes by dragging big logs. This was ...

White River Station

The White River drainage begins on Mount Hood's southern flanks, with its headwaters draining the White River Glacier and flowing through White River Canyon, the steep canyon between Mount Hood's Timberline Lodge and the Mount Hood Meadows ski areas. The ...

East Fork of the Salmon River

Following the scouting expedition, the trail blazed into the drainage of the East Fork of Salmon River, crossed that stream, and headed almost due north on an ash flow toward the base of Mount Hood.

Fountain of the Pioneers- Bronson Park

Alfonso Iannelli and the Fountain of the Pioneers Design

The Fountain of the Pioneers is a rare cement fountain and sculpture located in Bronson Park in downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan. The fountain was built in 1939 by ...

Wrought Iron Gate created by Philip Simmons

Local artisans crafted many of Charleston’s famous ornamental gates, like the gate pictured above by Philip Simmons. Decorative wrought-iron gates, fences, and railings are an integral part of Charleston’s identity, and the city’s African American craftsmen played a strong role ...