Favorite Photos from 2021

Continuing a tradition from previous years, we're sharing 35 of our favorite photos (plus a few videos) from our 2021 Ciaowagen travels, winnowed down from over 6,500 photos taken. We'd love to know which ones are YOUR favorites.

Sunset at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Lower Peninsula, Michigan

Picture Rocks National Lakeshore, Upper Peninsula, Michigan

Mother prairie dog and pups, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota

Last light of day, Inside Passage, Alaska

The Mountain, Denali National Park, Alaska

Caribou, Denali National Park, Alaska

Ruth Glacier landing, Denali National Park, Alaska

...and the video of our landing!

Marjorie Glacier, Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska

Mother wolf and three pups, Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska

Orca, Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska

Low tide, Homer, Alaska

Feeding brown bears, Brooks Falls, Katmai National Park, Alaska

...here's a video so you can see the bears in action, laser focused.

Glacier Lake, Kachemak Bay State Park, Alaska

Breaching humpback, Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska

...not so closeup as the photo above, in this video you can see multiple breaches and fin slaps.

Bald eagle, Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska

Jetskiing in Blackstone Bay near Whittier, Alaska

Root Glacier, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska

Glacier textures from the air, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska

Grizzly bear close at hand, seen from the Park Road bus, Denali National Park, Alaska

Aurora above the town of Watson Lake, Yukon Terrority, Canada

Athabasca Falls, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada

Athabasca Glacier, Icefields Parkway, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada

Lake Louise, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada

Moraine Lake, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada

Wildfire remains, Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada

View of Upper Waterton Lake from the Prince of Wales Hotel, Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada

Highline Trail, Glacier National Park, Montana

Grand Wash Trail, Capitol Reef National Park, Utah

Shadows on Park Avenue trail, Arches National Park, Utah

Corona Arch, Moab, Utah

Ear of the Wind, Monument Valley, Arizona

Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Arizona

Mass ascension, Alburquerque Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico

... and a glimpse of the spectacle of "Evening Glow" in the video below.

Descending from Bierstadt Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Endless Wall, viewed from Diamond Point, New River Gorge National Park, West Virginia