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    A nation of Earth's most unearthly places

    By Erik Nilsson | China Daily | Updated: 2016-03-14 09:44

    A nation of Earth's most unearthly places

    Visitors look out from Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park, California. [Photo provided to China Daily]

    The United States is a country of otherworldly world wonders.

    Nearly as many people visit its national parks annually as live in the nation-for good reason.

    They host some of Earth's most unearthly places, where ecology and geology embrace to forge fantastical spaces that seem unreal-but are, in many ways, more real than our cultivated existences in civilization's settlements.

    China Daily examines the allure of the five US national parks most visited in 2015.

    Great Smoky Mountains

    The Great Smoky Mountains that crumple the topography between Tennessee and North Carolina lure over 10 million travelers a year-twice as many as the next most-visited park.

    The Appalachian range takes its appellation from the mist that twists from its trees. The vapor is exhaled from a diversity of flora that exceeds Europe's.

    In addition to black bears, raccoons and coyotes, the park crawls with the world's greatest concentration of salamander varieties. Its three-dozen species-including hellbenders longer than human arms-make it the "World's Salamander Capital". The park celebrates this distinction with an annual Salamander Ball.

    Over a dozen lightening bug varieties flicker in the forests like stars on Earth.

    The Smokies also claim the greatest diversity of historical buildings in a US national park, including log structures from the 1800s.

    Grand Canyon

    Despite attracting over 5 million visitors last year, Arizona's 550-kilometer Grand Canyon remains a place of wild abandon.

    About 90 percent of travelers head for the edge of the South Rim.

    Its distance from the North Rim is over 350 km by car and 34 km on foot. Both the hike and drive are extreme-but epic. Authorities advise against the overnight rim-to-rim trek in summer's 38 C desert heat.

    Mules and boats offer other means to navigate the Inner Canyon.

    Desert panoramas can be enjoyed from a 21-meter-high watchtower built in Pueblo Indian style in 1932. The crumbs of an actual ancient Pueblo village scatter at the Tusayan Ruin.

    Point Imperial affords multihued views of the Painted Desert and striated columns of Marble Canyon, from which gully walls whoosh apart to make the canyon "grand".

    Tuweep's 900-meter drop took shape when lava repeatedly oozed over the ridge, clogging the Colorado River, which eventually punched its way through. The sheer cliff is the kind of place where you wouldn't want to look down-except you do. That's the point.

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