All 50 states
One place from every state in the union.
Terra Terra Collections All 50 states
A tour of the United States, in alphabetical order by state, with one place from each of the 50 states: peaks and canyons, battlefields and dunes, mines, islands and a few cities. Each is a real 3D terrain model built from real elevation data, so you can print the state you live in, the one you grew up in, or all fifty.
50 stops · read them in order, or jump to the one you want
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Cheaha Mountain, Alabama
The highest point in Alabama, at 736 m, where the Appalachians end.
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Mount Magazine, Arkansas
The highest point in Arkansas, at 839 m, a flat-topped mesa in the Ozarks.
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Yosemite Valley, California
El Capitan, Half Dome, Bridalveil and Yosemite Falls in one granite valley.
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Pikes Peak, Colorado
America's Mountain, which inspired America the Beautiful.
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Sleeping Giant, Connecticut
A long basalt ridge that looks like a giant asleep on his back.
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Cape Henlopen, Delaware
A sandy hook where Delaware Bay meets the Atlantic, with some of the highest dunes on the coast.
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Cape Canaveral, Florida
The launch pads of Apollo, the Space Shuttle and today's rockets, on a barrier island.
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Chickamauga, Georgia
The wooded ridges and creek of a great 1863 battle.
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Craters of the Moon, Idaho
A sea of black lava and cinder cones where Apollo astronauts trained for the Moon.
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Cahokia Mounds, Illinois
The biggest earthwork city north of Mexico, with Monks Mound at its center.
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Indiana Dunes, Indiana
Sand hills piled up on the southern shore of Lake Michigan.
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Effigy Mounds, Iowa
Bird and bear shaped burial mounds on bluffs above the Mississippi.
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Monument Rocks, Kansas
Chalk pillars and arches left standing on the Kansas plains, the Chalk Pyramids.
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Cumberland Gap, Kentucky
The pass through the Appalachians that opened the way west for settlers.
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New Orleans, Louisiana
A city built on a bend of the Mississippi, between the river and Lake Pontchartrain.
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Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts
Where the American Revolution began on April 19, 1775.
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Sleeping Bear Dunes, Michigan
Huge perched dunes towering 140 m above Lake Michigan.
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Hull-Rust-Mahoning Mine, Minnesota
The largest open pit iron mine in the United States, called the Grand Canyon of the North.
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St. Louis, Missouri
The Gateway Arch on the west bank of the Mississippi, the gateway to the American West.
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Glacier National Park, Montana
Going-to-the-Sun Road crossing the Continental Divide.
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Chimney Rock, Nebraska
The Oregon Trail landmark that pioneers could see for days.
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Las Vegas, Nevada
A desert valley ringed by Red Rock Canyon and Mount Charleston.
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Mount Washington, New Hampshire
Home of some of the worst weather in the world.
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Delaware Water Gap, New Jersey
Where the Delaware River cuts a deep notch through Kittatinny Ridge.
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Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Great houses of the Ancestral Puebloans in a desert canyon.
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Niagara Falls
The gorge cut by the falls over twelve thousand years.
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Mount Mitchell, North Carolina
The highest point east of the Mississippi River.
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Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota
Painted badlands along the Little Missouri River where Roosevelt once ranched.
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Serpent Mound, Ohio
A 400 m earthwork shaped like a snake, built by Native Americans over a thousand years ago.
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Wichita Mountains, Oklahoma
Ancient granite hills rising from the southern plains, home to a bison herd.
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Crater Lake, Oregon
The deepest lake in the US fills a collapsed volcano.
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Cemetery Ridge, Little Round Top and the fields between.
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Block Island, Rhode Island
A glacial island of rolling bluffs and ponds, 20 km off the Rhode Island coast.
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Fort Sumter, South Carolina
Where the Civil War began, on an island in Charleston harbor.
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Clingmans Dome, Tennessee
The roof of the Great Smoky Mountains, on the Appalachian Trail.
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Santa Elena Canyon, Texas
The Rio Grande squeezed between 450 m walls.
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Mount Mansfield, Vermont
The highest peak in Vermont, at 1,339 m, whose ridge looks like a human profile.
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Mount Vernon, Virginia
Washington's estate on a bluff over the Potomac.
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
A town between two rivers and three mountains, where John Brown raided in 1859.
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Devil's Lake, Wisconsin
A lake held in a gorge between 150 m quartzite bluffs, left by the glaciers.
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Yellowstone: Old Faithful and the caldera
Geysers and hot springs above a supervolcano, in the first national park.
