Red skies at Ruby Beach Apr 26, 2020

Red skies at Ruby Beach

Our National Park Week virtual tour comes to a close at sunset on Ruby Beach, one of the many stunning corners of Olympic National Park in Washington state. A few miles from the shore is Destruction Island, where birds such as rhinoceros auklets may stop and rest after a day of gobbling up krill and squid in the cold Pacific waters. While the park includes miles of colorful Pacific coastline, it"s also famous for the Hoh Rainforest, an inland temperate forest notable for its towering old-growth hemlock and spruce trees.

© Adam Mowery/Tandem Stills + Motion

palette

Today in History

Apr 26, 2018National Park Week: Guadalupe Mountains National Park
Apr 26, 2019Happy Arbor Day!
Apr 26, 2021Cheese! We ll go somewhere where there s cheese!
Apr 26, 2022Landscape Architecture Month
Apr 26, 2023Great horned owl fledglings
Apr 26, 2024Arbor Day
Apr 26, 2025Redwood National and State Parks, California

More Desktop Wallpapers:

Jan 13, 2025Happy Welsh New Year!
Jun 28, 2022Tafilalet oasis in Morocco
Oct 1, 2018It’s NASA’s 60th birthday
May 9, 2020Here’s looking at you, teachers
Nov 12, 2020Upstate autumn
May 5, 2019Celebrating Mexico in a Cultural Capital
Oct 11, 2023National Fossil Day
Sep 21, 2021An old celebration for a new season
Oct 23, 2020Saskatchewan s spookier side
Apr 29, 2020Spring comes to the Palouse
Nov 16, 202250 years of World Heritage Sites
Nov 29, 2022Giving Tuesday
Feb 9, 2024Pegadung Rock, Lampung, Sumatra, Indonesia
Apr 1, 2025National Frog Month
Mar 17, 2024St. Patricks Day
Feb 3, 2019A crane for good luck in today’s big game
Jan 31, 2022Incense making, Vietnam
Aug 20, 2023International Lighthouse Weekend
Jul 31, 2025Ring-tailed lemur
Nov 9, 2020Autumn in Piedmont
Jun 17, 2020Don t go chasing waterfalls
Aug 28, 2025A great white egret in Hungary
Jun 3, 2023National Trails Day
Nov 23, 2023Happy Thanksgiving!
May 28, 2022Bungle Bungle Range in Purnululu National Park, Australia
Dec 23, 2018Make your list and check it twice
Dec 4, 2020Protecting wildlife today and tomorrow
May 26, 2019Racing toward history
Feb 15, 2022Lantern Festival
Jan 8, 2020Take the stairs