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US National Parks in 3D for centenary

September 8, 2016

In our August month-end post we mentioned that Monument Valley, Arizona / Utah was now in 3D in Google Earth. Several other US parks also received 3D imagery at the same time. What we didn’t realise at the time was the reason why Google added 3D for several US parks at the end of August. It was because the US National Park Service celebrated its hundredth birthday on August 25, 2016.

So, to show off the 3D imagery available for US Parks, including both the new releases and areas that already had 3D (which we looked at last October), we have created some Google Earth tours, which you can view in Google Earth with this KML file. We have also recorded a select few of them in the YouTube video below:

Note that we haven’t created tours for every US park that has 3D. We have included outlines for the parks we know about that have 3D. If you notice we have missed any, please let us know in the comments.

For a map of all areas, not just US parks, that have 3D use this KML file.

About Timothy Whitehead

Timothy has been using Google Earth since 2004 when it was still called Keyhole before it was renamed Google Earth in 2005 and has been a huge fan ever since. He is a programmer working for Red Wing Aerobatx and lives in Cape Town, South Africa.

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  1. woteit says

    September 9, 2016 at 9:45 am

    did you use space navigator to record the tours?

  2. woteit says

    September 9, 2016 at 9:48 am

    sorry, i see you answered my question in today’s post.

  3. Dusty says

    September 10, 2016 at 6:53 pm

    Yellowstone National Park is in Wyoming, not Utah

  4. Joe says

    December 1, 2016 at 6:25 pm

    Central section of Glacier National Park just came online (though it’s not the entire park).



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