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National Park Mystery Photo 52: Follow The Arrow

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on June 28, 2012 - 3:59am

Mystery photo 52.

Can you tell what Mystery Photo 52 depicts and identify the national park in which it was taken? If you answer correctly, you will be eligible for our monthly prize drawing and a chance to win a copy of David and Kay Scott's The Complete Guide To The National Park Lodges, 7th Edition.

The answer and a list of Traveler readers who answered correctly will be posted in tomorrow’s Traveler.

No cheating! If we catch you Googling or engaged in other sneakery, we will make you write on the whiteboard 100 times: “The longest word in the Old Testament is the 18-character word Mahershalalhashbaz, which is the name of the youngest of the prophet Isaiah’s two sons.”

Comments

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on June 28, 2012 - 5:50am.

Celbert and Eric have shown the way, nailing this one on first try. Well done. Lots more room in the Winners Circle, folks.

Submitted by Ed A. (not verified) on June 28, 2012 - 5:55am.

Bear Gulch Cave, Pinnacles NM

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on June 28, 2012 - 5:57am.

A logical guess, Ed, but this photo was not taken in Pinnacles National Monument.

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on June 28, 2012 - 6:19am.

Our readers are pouncing on this mystery photo like a chicken on a June bug. Moon Pie is the latest to ID it. Who's next?

Submitted by Ilex_Opaca on June 28, 2012 - 6:55am.

Is it a trail marker on Old Rag in Shenandoah National Park?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on June 28, 2012 - 7:43am.

Mammoth cave national park

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on June 28, 2012 - 8:06am.

Erik B, you've provided one part of the answer. Give us the rest and you'll be in.

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on June 28, 2012 - 8:07am.

Old Rag in Shenandoah National Park is way cold, RangerLady.

Submitted by ron erpelding (not verified) on June 28, 2012 - 8:35am.

Wind Cave National Park

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on June 28, 2012 - 8:41am.

Another logical guess, ron, but the mystery photo was not taken in Wind Cave National Park. Again, please remember that the name of the park is only part of the answer.

Submitted by David Crowl (not verified) on June 28, 2012 - 8:46am.

Is it the mount carmel tunnel in Zion NP

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on June 28, 2012 - 8:53am.

Sorry, Ron; it's not the Mount Carmel Tunnel in Zion National Park.

Submitted by David Crowl (not verified) on June 28, 2012 - 9:19am.

Is it a climbing route in Yosemite for Half dome

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on June 28, 2012 - 9:24am.

This photo does not show a climbing route marker, David, and it was not taken in Yosemite National Park. Please try again.

Submitted by National Park Kid (not verified) on June 28, 2012 - 2:20pm.

The historic portion of Mammoth Cave, in Mammoth Cave National Park.

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on June 28, 2012 - 2:30pm.

Nice try, National Park Kid, but this photo was not taken in Mammoth Cave National Park (nor even on that side of the Mississippi). Please try again.

Submitted by celbert (not verified) on June 28, 2012 - 5:00pm.

"A chicken on a june bug?" Guess I've been called worse.

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on June 28, 2012 - 5:56pm.

Right on the button, s. I'm impressed.

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on June 28, 2012 - 6:00pm.

That expression is fairly common here in Dixie, celbert. It means "very quickly" or "in a flash."

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on June 28, 2012 - 8:06pm.

Close enough, Eric B; you're in.

Submitted by Caprice Kutz (not verified) on June 28, 2012 - 8:14pm.

I have been in the North Cascades NP all day so this answer is a stab in the dark. Could it be the fireplace at the Old Faithful Inn at Yellowstone NP?

Submitted by Caprice Kutz (not verified) on June 28, 2012 - 8:28pm.

Nix my first guess, 5 hours in the car with my 7 yr old granddaughter did me in. Here is my next one. It is from Johnstown Flood Memorial and the arrow is pointing at the depth marker.

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on June 29, 2012 - 5:11am.

Wow, Caprice; those are wonderfully imaginative guesses. And the granddaughter tale is truly inspired weaselspeak. If we had an honorable mention category for this puzzler, you'd be a shoe-in. ;o) It remains that neither of your recent guesses is in the ballpark.

Submitted by Rick Smith on June 29, 2012 - 11:00am.

New Cave at Carlsbad?

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on June 30, 2012 - 4:51am.

Not New Cave at Carlsbad Caverns National Park, Rick, but that's a good guess.