Landscape architecture Professor Philip H. Elwood, along with three Iowa State College students, made a trip of U.S. western national parks in the summer of 1927. This video contains clips from the Washington, Oregon and California portions of that trip. Includes footage of some of the area around Paradise Inn in Mt. Rainier National Park, the loading of logs in the ports of Longview onto a Japanese steamship for export, the Columbia River valley and Mt. Momo Falls. Includes footage of Portland, Oregon, Crater Lake National Park, San Francisco, Stanford University, Point Lobos in Monterey, and Yosemite and Vernal Falls.