Geology of National Parks

Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument

A Photographic Tour of Park Geology

Start a 3D image tour by clicking here. See tour in standard photo images See images in a thumbnail image gallery Return to the Geology of National Parks main page

Click here to start a tour of the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument. Click on any of the images to continue to the next page in the linked page series. Or, see a thumbnail gallery.

Map of Mount St. Helens area
Click on the map or click on "next image" to see a series of photographs.

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Toutle River Valley Toutle River Valley Mount St. Helens
Toutle River Valley Toutle River Valley Mount St. Helens
Mount St. Helens Coldwater Ridge Mount St. Helens
Mount St. Helens Coldwater Ridge Mount St. Helens
Mount St. Helens Coldwater Lake Coldwater Lake dam
Mount St. Helens Coldwater Lake Coldwater Lake dam
Coldwater Lake Coldwater Lake boardwalk Toutle River badlands
Coldwater Lake Coldwater Lake boardwalk Toutle River badlands
Boundary Trail Natural pond in badlands area Boundary Trail marker
Boundary Trail Natural pond in badlands area Boundary Trail marker
Badlands along Toutle River Badlands along Toutle River Badlands along Toutle River
Badlands along Toutle River Badlands along Toutle River Badlands along Toutle River
Badlands along Toutle River Badlands along Toutle River Garter Snake
Aerial view Aerial view of Mount St. Helens taken in 2005 after an eruption cycle. (All other images were taken in 2004 prior to the eruption.)
Badlands along Toutle River Badlands along Toutle River Garter Snake
Elk skull and horns

See these other websites about volcanoes and parks in the Pacific Northwest Region:

Crater Lake National Park

Mount Rainier National Park

Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area

Grand Coulee and the Columbia River Plateau

Lava Beds National Monument

Mount Shasta

John Day Fossil Beds National Monument

North Cascades National Park

Olympic National Park
Elk skull and horns are part of a hands-on display at the Coldwater Ridge Visitor Center at Mount St. Helens
Click here to see geology tours of other US National Parks and Monuments

The National Forest Service website for Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument is: http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/mshnvm/

See selected references about the geology of Mount St. Helens.

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Photography on this website was taken in 2004. This website contains images produced from stereo photo pairs that were manipulated into anaglyphs (3-D images). You will need red-and-cyan stereo viewing glasses to get the 3-D visual effects.
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Last modified 10/29/2010