About the Book

Award winning photographer David Muench captures the popular and iconic national parks that millions of Americans love and cherish as well as the lesser known places and wilderness areas where few travelers venture.

Author and Photographer Collaboration

Ruth Rudner's moving essays coupled with Muench's visual celebration of these great lands brings to life the landscapes and features of parks.

Featured Parks

These amazing photographs include Great Smoky Mountains NP, the Grand Canyon NP, Yellowstone NP, and Yosemite NP to the more remote parks like Channel Islands NP off the coast of California and Kenai Fjords NP in Alaska plus hundreds of other unique images of the 54 national parks that David Muench has photographed.