- Sedona, Arizona-This amazing desert town in the middle of Arizona has its own special claim to fame which is its beautiful red rocks its rocks aren't just red though it also has other colors and in the winter sometimes gets snow. Also, it is home to a lot of Arizona's Wildlife including mule deer, elk, varied birds, snakes, lizards, cactus, and very few trees and fish.
- Grand Canyon, Arizona-This amazing canyon is large across and down in the winter it can get fairly cold except you are lucky to go there in the winter and not have snow. It is one of the most visited National Parks in the United States. Also, it isn't a desert at the rim (top) but it is down below. There are indeed hiking trails that go down but only 5% of the people that go there know this the rest know about the rim trail and the top. This is beautiful because of the colors at sunset/sunrise and the pure awe that you get by looking at it.
- Glacier Bay, Alaska-This as you know is the first one out of Arizona and in a beautiful location it is near Anchorage and Seward (a small fishing town) it has constant ice flowing in the bay which is the water there. It has cruises that you can take to visit I have never seen it. But, have been told that it is so amazing that it should make it to the top 5 list.
- Olympic Mountains, Washington-This one has amazing plant life and mountains and animals. I am going to go there this summer so I feel that the pictures make it worthy. It has 14,000 ft tall mountains and 2 types of bears, salmon and beautiful views.
- Presidential Range,NH/ME-I just had to put something from my very own New England and show you how beautiful it is. I personally love the Presidential Range Mountains because there are 6,000 ft tall mountains, animals and plants. It has some of the only remaining Alpine Life left in the country.
- Ostrich Fern Fiddlehead-The Ostrich Fern Fiddlehead is indeed edible and grows naturally in New England's Outdoors. They grow in early thru late spring and look like the fiddlehead pictured to the right with the papery stuff covering it. Back in 1994 there was an outbreak of food borne illness from eating raw or under cooked fiddleheads. So, we have now learned that they should be cooked before being eaten.
- Wild Blueberries-These are not to be confused with night lock or nightshade. They are blue-purple berries with a small crown at the top after you pull it off of the stem. They taste like normal blueberries that you would find in the grocery store or in the fridge. But, usually are smaller because the ones in stores where grown on farms where they used picking and planting to find the best plants. You can eat them how you would eat any normal blueberries.
- Wild Raspberries-These are red or black berries that grow in bushes that have prickers on them and they taste just like the ones in the store also they are usually about the same size as them too. The same choices are given once again for preparation.
- White Pine-This tree should only be used if you are very experience and can definitely identify it because it could get mixed up with other evergreens that are poisonous. You can identify this tree from its needles because they only will still have their needles if they are from this year and because of that the lower branches will have no needles and the inner parts of the branches won't either. Some uses are you can eat the inner bark, make tea from the needles, and it smells nice (I know that this is not any thing to do with eating). Also, it was used to help the explorers from getting scurvy because it has so much Vitamin C.
- Birch-The birch tree has many uses such as the water inside of it is 100% potable and also its branches can be used to make tea which also has many herbal uses. Both white and black birch can have these uses.
