| Fifty-foot-high cliffs overlook the pounding surf along the Pacific Coast near Santa Cruz. |
| Lassen Peak overlooks Almanor Lake. Chester lies in the forest on the opposite shore. |
| Ocotillos, a plant of the Sonaran desert, found here along U.S. Highway 95, bloom and grow leaves only after exceptional rainstorms. |
| A steaming mound of cream-colored earth is visited by California Highway 89 at the Sulfur Works in Lassen National Park. |
| Lassen Peak reflects in Lake Helen in Lassen Volcanic Park. Heavy winter snows still linger even in July. |
| Ellery Lake sits high in the Sierra Nevadas at the top of Lee Vining Canyon. |
| Mono Lake lies just east of the Sierra Nevadas, near the California-Nevada border. It is the beginning of the Great Basin region. |
| The Colorado River flows past Needles, California with Arizona's Black Mountains in the distance. |
| Winter snows cover Telescope Peak, seen behind the barren slopes of the Panamint Mountain Range and the desert vegetation of Panamint Valley. |
| The dome of the California Capitol rises above the trees of the Capitol Park. |
| The Death Valley Sand Dunes lie at the heart of Death Valley with the Amargosa Mountains in the background. |
| The Oakland Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |
| Tenaya Lake sits high in the Sierra Nevada Mountains at Yosemite, surrounded by granite-domed mountains. |
| Tenaya Lake is seen at a distance surrounded by the dark green of coniferous forests and the vast granite domes of Yosemite National Park. |
| Brightly colored stone formations line the sides of Red Canyon. |
