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New National Park & POI screenshot galleries added

Another PG Hangar gallery update has now been added across the site, continuing the rollout of visual references for National Parks, scenic regions and official POIs.

New screenshot gallery coverage has been added for Theodore Roosevelt National Park and Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, helping showcase two more WU22 scenic locations with proper preview images.

The PG Explorer Map has also received new POI galleries for Painted Canyon Visitor Center, Troubridge Island Lighthouse, Busselton Jetty and Atacama Giant.

A big thank you to @SmotheryVase665, @hairstreak62 and @johnwhite92 for kindly supplying screenshots for this update.

A small data fix has also been made for Nantes, France, correcting its map position so it no longer points to Montgomery, Alabama.

PG City screenshot coverage expanded — 3/10 and 4/10 cities added

Another PG Hangar screenshot batch has now been added, this time focusing on lower-rated 3/10 and 4/10 PG Cities.

New single-image visual references have been added for cities including Charleston, Charleston WV, Portsmouth UK, South Bend, Carson City, Christchurch, Cleveland, Colorado Springs, Davenport, Dayton, Durham / Raleigh, Ghent, Hamilton, Huntsville, Lubbock, Macon / Centerville, Midland / Odessa, Norfolk / Portsmouth, Oklahoma City, Palm Springs, Prescott, Shreveport, Southampton, Split, Tulsa, Victoria, Vigo, Visby, Wichita, Winnipeg and Winston-Salem.

These screenshots have been added across the relevant MSFS 2024, MSFS 2020 and PG Explorer Map entries, helping make even the lower-rated PG areas easier to preview before flying.

The USA PG City entries have also had a data cleanup pass, with US state names added across the lists and Carson City corrected to its proper Nevada location.

PG Explorer Map — new official POI screenshot galleries added

A new batch of official POI screenshot galleries has been added to the PG Explorer Map, helping give more handcrafted and scenic POIs their own visual reference on the site.

New POI gallery coverage has been added for Totem Pole POI, Tree of Utah POI, Old Faithful Inn POI, Our Lady of the Rockies POI, and Grand Coulee Dam POI.

These screenshots were captured by Air Rhodessa as part of the ongoing PG Hangar screenshot coverage project, gradually building out visual references for National Parks, scenic regions, PG Cities and official POIs.

Badlands National Park screenshot gallery added

Badlands National Park now has new screenshot gallery coverage on PG Hangar, helping show the park’s colourful eroded ridges, wide-open prairie scenery and rugged WU22 terrain detail.

The official WU22 White River Visitor Center POI has also been added to the PG Explorer Map gallery coverage.

A big thank you to @SmotheryVase665 for kindly supplying the Badlands National Park and White River Visitor Center screenshots.

Screenshot galleries expanded — Sequoia, Scotty’s Castle & 2/10 PG Cities

Another PG Hangar screenshot batch has now been added across the site, continuing the community gallery rollout for National Parks, POIs and PG Cities.

New screenshot coverage has been added for Sequoia National Park and the official WU22 Scotty’s Castle POI, with screenshots kindly supplied by @johnwhite92.

The lowest-rated 2/10 PG Cities have also started receiving single-image visual references, including Baton Rouge, Columbia, Derby, Helsinki, Linköping, Lynchburg, McAllen / Brownsville, Nottingham, Paris and Texas City / Galveston.

This helps give even the lower-rated PG areas a quick visual reference while keeping the larger gallery treatment focused on the stronger showcase locations.

Community galleries + WU22 rating tweaks added

The latest PG Hangar screenshot gallery batch has now been added, with new gallery coverage for Rocky Mountain National Park, Everglades National Park, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument and several WU22 POIs.

Badlands National Park has been raised to 8/10, and Everglades National Park has been raised to 6/10 after further community testing and screenshot feedback.

Huge thanks to @hairstreak62 for the Everglades re-check and screenshots, plus @johnwhite92 and @PaulausPilot for helping keep the PG Hangar galleries growing.

WU22 National Parks — final ratings now complete

The WU22 National Parks have now been fully tested and rated by PG Hangar after detailed in-sim checks.

New final ratings include Big Bend National Park at 10/10, Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park at 10/10 with the Hitting it out of the Park Award, Canyon de Chelly National Monument at 10/10, and Canyonlands National Park at 10/10 with the Hitting it out of the Park Award.

The National Parks list has also had a small layout polish pass, with cleaner award spacing, improved flag alignment and more level screenshot thumbnails across the park cards.

PG Hangar Galleries — full-size screenshot viewer added

The PG Hangar screenshot galleries have been updated again. Clicking the main gallery image now opens a much larger full-size preview, making it easier to appreciate the community screenshots in detail.

The larger viewer is now available for the current gallery locations, including Grand Teton, Grand Canyon, Joshua Tree, Arches, Mount Rainier, Lake Quinault Lodge and Grand Prismatic Spring.

Huge thanks again to @johnwhite92 and @hairstreak62 for the screenshots helping bring this feature to life.

Arches National Park — 10/10 rating awarded

Arches National Park has now been rated 10/10 and awarded the Hitting it out of the Park Award.

The arches, red-rock terrain, shadowing and surrounding desert landscape make it one of the standout WU22 scenic areas. Huge thanks to @hairstreak62 for the screenshots and testing feedback.

More WU22 National Parks ratings added

More WU22 National Parks have now been tested and rated on the Hangar. Mt Rainier National Park has been rated 10/10 and awarded the Hitting it out of the Park Award.

New ratings are also live for Wind Cave National Park at 8/10, Theodore Roosevelt National Park at 7/10, Sequoia National Park at 7/10, Saguaro National Park at 9/10, Redwood National Park at 6/10, Pinnacles National Park at 8/10 and Petrified Forest National Park at 7/10.

The old duplicate U.S. park entries have also been removed from the homepage search database, so those parks now appear through the WU22 National Parks entries only. The former Existing Parks area is now treated as International Parks & Scenic Regions.

Grand Staircase–Escalante Scenic AOI added

A new Utah entry has been added to the National Parks & Hi-Res Scenic AOIs list: Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument.

It has been rated 10/10 and awarded the Hitting it out of the Park Award for its huge desert terrain, canyon routes, cliffs, mesas and superb low-and-slow VFR potential.

The homepage search database has also been updated, and the Hangar scenic count now shows 8 International Parks & Scenic Regions, 36 WU22 National Parks and 4 Hi-Res Scenic AOIs.

Community credit: huge thanks to @Snowleopard3295 for finding this brilliant scenic AOI for the Hangar.

National Parks layout refreshed — Hi-Res Scenic AOIs added

The National Parks area has been cleaned up into clearer sections: International Parks & Scenic Regions, WU22 National Parks and the new Hi-Res Scenic AOIs section.

Marble Canyon Scenic AOI, Coconino National Forest & Sedona Red Rock Scenic AOI, Navajo Nation / Four Corners Scenic AOI and Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument now sit inside the Hi-Res Scenic AOIs section.

The homepage now shows the refreshed scenic count clearly: 8 International Parks & Scenic Regions, 36 WU22 National Parks and 4 Hi-Res Scenic AOIs.

National Parks update — first Hitting it out of the Park Awards added

The first official WU22 National Parks ratings are now live. Grand Canyon National Park, Grand Teton National Park, Zion National Park, Yosemite National Park and Rocky Mountain National Park have all been rated 10/10 and awarded the new Hitting it out of the Park Award.

This special award is reserved for the very best scenic parks, forests, monuments and protected areas on the Hangar — places that go beyond a normal 10/10 for scenery, terrain quality, exploration value and pure wow factor.

National Parks cards cleaned up and WU22 thumbnails added

The National Parks cards have had another visual tidy-up. The repeated park logos have been removed, the park titles now sit centred and clearer, the WU22 and rating pills are easier to spot, and the screenshots now take the lead as the main visual feature.

All WU22 National Park cards now have thumbnails, with the card layout adjusted so the images line up more cleanly across each row.

Homepage parks count split into Existing and WU22

The National Parks homepage card now separates the original scenic parks, the WU22 National Parks batch and the new Hi-Res Scenic AOIs. The card now shows 8 International Parks & Scenic Regions, 36 WU22 National Parks and 4 Hi-Res Scenic AOIs.