The park is beautiful in all scenes but autumn is especially stunning. The main entrances are in the towns of Gatlinburg, Tennessee and Cherokee, North Carolina. Great Smokey Mountains National Park in Tennessee and North Carolina is another favorite for photographers, and it is America’s most-visited national park. → See more places to photograph in Arizona Monument Valley For more, see our detailed guide to Photographing Sedona, Arizona and our guide to Schnebly Hill Road. Jerome was a mining town high on top of Cleopatra Hill and is an interesting place to visit. While you are in Sedona you may also want to visit Jerome, AZ, a ghost town in that is less than an hour away. The parking lot of the small airport is a great place to get a sunset view, but get there early because it can get quite crowded.

Red Red State Park is a great location that includes hiking trails and some beautiful views. The Jeep tours are fine for casual photography but you won’t be able to dictate your own schedule or stay in any one place for very long. The forest roads will require a 4-wheel drive, but you can take a Jeep tour from several different providers or rent a vehicle and explore on your own. The town of Sedona is fairly small and there are a number of trials and forest roads that will lead to some of the best views. There are beautiful views just about everywhere you look in and around Sedona. Sedona is about a two hour drive south of the Grand Canyon’s south rim, so it is a excellent side trip for anyone visiting the Grand Canyon. Sedona, Arizona provides stunning views of red rock and offers plenty of opportunities for photographers. → See more places to photograph in California Yellowstone National Park There are plenty of hiking trails that will help you to get away from the crowds and find some unique scenes, subjects, and vantage points. Opportunities for beautiful landscape photos exist throughout the park, although the majority of the parks visitors stay near the main attractions and Yosemite Village. Tunnel view, a scenic overlook within the park, is an extremely popular place from which to photograph. Commonly photographer subjects include half dome (a 4,700 foot tall granite rock formation), El Capitan (a 3,000 foot granite monolith), and Yosemite Falls (the highest waterfall in the United States). Located in norther California, Yosemite National Park is accessible from San Francisco and San Jose, and is also reasonably close to another location that will be mentioned later, Death Valley National Park. Yosemite is a favorite of many landscape photographers and there are plenty of iconic photographs of Yosemite, including those from Ansel Adams.

Beautiful landscape photo