HelenaPF's favorite photos

This is Nevada Falls in Yosemite National Park. The first day of our recent visit to Yosemite we hiked the John Muir Trail to Vernal and Nevada Falls, a round trip of about eight miles and quite a strenuous hike.

Photographed along the Harding Icefields trail in Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska.

Taken along the Potash Road which follows the Colorado River west of Moab, Utah.

This is Dusty Star Mountain and Citadel Mountain from the trailhead to St. Mary's Falls in Glacier National Park, Montana.

These are the berries of Desert Mistletoe, photographed along the trail to Lost Palms Oasis in Joshua Tree National Park.

Photographed in the Dahlia Gardens at Manito City Park, Spokane.

Last spring we were in Utah with our oldest daughter and visited Arches and Canyonlands National Parks. In the Needles District of Canyonlands we did an all-day hike through the area of Lost Canyon. We hiked a total of about ten miles through canyons, up and over ridges, and around formations such as this. It was, we all agreed, the best hike we had done in the park.

Sol Duc Falls is a short hike from the end of the Sol Duc Road in Olympic National Park, Washington.

Taken on a hike in the Sol Duc area of Olympic National Park whil on an extended trip there in 2015. The Sol Duc area is on the north end of the park west of the city of Port Angeles. There are hot springs, several campgrounds, another falls, some virgin forest and a place to watch the salmon along the Sol Duc Road.