Your 5 most beautiful places in the lower 48

[Foggy_Goggles]

"The San Juans are definitely one of the top 5 most beautiful places in the lower 48" stolen from Xover.

Mine in no particular order

1. Colorado mountain creek in peak run off (pick one: Crystal, OBJ, Clear Creek of the Ark, Fish)

2. Tetons

3. coast of Maine

4. Northern VT on the Long Trail - early fall

5. Clearwater NF - Idaho

[truth]

Originally posted by Foggy_Goggles
"The San Juans are definitely one of the top 5 most beautiful places in the lower 48" stolen from Xover.

Agreed. I could list all five in the Juans but since you asked...

Indian Creek, UT


Weminuche Wilderness Area, CO


Oak Creek Canyon, AZ


Red Mountain Pass, CO


Grand Teton National Park, WY

[Schmear]

Lake Ingalls, Alpine Lakes Wilderness

Capital Reef National Park and surrounding area (Hanksville, Cainville, etc.)

Steens Mountain/Alvord Desert

Top of Alpental on a sunny day after a huge storm

Oregon coast

[iceman]

I haven't been to half the places I want to go, but I'll add....

-Beartooth Highway

-Waquoit (Cape Cod)

-Race Point (Cape Cod)

-Jenny Lake

-Bighorn Mts.

[Blurred Elevens]

1. Ouray

2. Telluride

3. Sonoma

4. Sun Valley-especially Trail Creek Rd.

5. Jackson/Tetons/Jellystone

Honorable mention- Grand Canyon

[iskibc]

Originally posted by Foggy_Goggles
"The San Juans are definitely one of the top 5 most beautiful places in the lower 48" stolen from Xover.

3. coast of Maine

Lived there for 20+ years. Lot's of really cool islands off shore to explore and camp.

other notables:

1. Sangre De Cristo Range
2. Golden Road near Moosehead Lake, Maine
3. Boundary waters

[Mountainman]

1. Beartooth Pass
2. Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness
3. Bighorn Mountains
4. Oregon Coast
5. Glacier National Park

[UTdave]

there's some pretty cool stuff down in Moab. I like all the red rock with the snowy La Sals in the background. Definitely a bunch of cool views off Porcupine Rim (maybe the fear of falling off the really huge cliff that comes within 15 feet of the trail makes the views that much better)

edit: I guess that's only one. Oh fucking well.

[Blurred Elevens]

Bighorn Mtns.? The ones in Wyoming or the ones in Florida?

[Kellie]

1. kearsarge pass (eastern sierra)
2. havasu cyn, AZ
3. cougar divide (north cascades) at sunrise
4. joshua tree (esp. at sunrise/sunset)
5. oregon coast

[Odin]

In no particular order......

Big Bend

Red River, NM - In the Fall

There is a spot on the Missouri River where you cross a bridge heading over a gorge inbetween these massive hills. It looks as though someone just reached down and carved out the area with the palm of their hand.

Bitter Creek Trail Area CO

Western Montana at dusk with the sun setting behind yellowstone.



adding just a few more honerable mentions.

TN when the mist is on the road.
NE PA in the Fall

[CascadeSkiBum]

Can't decide my order:

-Northwest glacier national park
-Gonna agree with blurred on Trail Creek and throw in the Sawtooth wilderness
-Ranier National Park
-Tetons
-Running out of ideas, San Juans, Lopez in particular

[Schmear]

Originally posted by CascadeSkiBum
-Running out of ideas

Is that in Texas by chance?

[bluewood_skier]

in no particular order


i like maine...ive only been to the coast.

oregon coast...cannon beach area.

yellowstone

mt rushmore

some area in the blue mountain.

those are just what ive seen with my own eyes and not pictures.

[zion zig zag]

1. snowbasin with 12" of new
2. wind rivers
3. boundry waters/ quetico prov. park
4. capitol reef NP
5. ocracoke island NC

[jibij]

no particular order:

Pacific Coast Highway, around Carmel
Yosemite
Glenwood Canyon
Sanibel/Captiva Islands
Niagara Falls, for their awesome display of nature's power

[Theodore]

Sunsets in the Flint Hill w/ thunderstorms a formin
Sangre de Cristos
Flume/ Kancamangus Highway, NH
Florida Keys
Boundry Waters

If we can expand it a bit, Sea to Sky highway just north of Vancouver.

No real order on those, just all experienced first hand.

Ted

[Skidawg]

In no particular order:

-Rte 61 between Duluth and the CDN border.
-Youghiogheny River George (Upper and Lower), PA.
-Anywhere within the Lake Tahoe Basin
-King's Canyon National Park, CA
-Florida Keys between Key West and the 7-mile bridge.

I see I have a thing for water.

[Lumpy]

1. Willapa Bay at sunrise- Southwest Washington Coast

2. Hosmer Lake -Central Or

3. Central Washington Coast from Cape Alava..better looking in from the water

4. Queets River Valley- Olympic National Park


5. Naselle River Gorge- Southwest Washington
(stupid .gif, only two of these are from the Naselle, I'm sure the rest are the Kalama, but its like a minature Olympic Rainforest)

[White Chocolate]

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3. Summit of Mt. Baker. Or anywhere on the east side of the peak at surise

4. Summit of Middle Teton. crazy views of the grand

[FreakofSnow]

- Beartooth Plateau
- Lochsa River drainage
- near Bridgeport, CA
- Redwood NP
- Not telling

[bad_roo]

My favourite. White Sands, New Mexico - very special place for me.

[PaSucks]

Places I've been that just blew me away.

Yosemite- glacier point was amazing. Half-dome, yosemite falls, and much much more all right across the valley.

Monteray Bay area- amazing coast line. Seventeen mile drive was pretty cool to.

The North Face at Seven Springs- not the most breathtaking, but on a clear day you can see the USX tower in Pittsburgh over 50 miles away.

The drive home from up at school- Route 56 as it passes through the Conemough gap just west of Johnstown is a very steep, deep valley carved out by the Little Conemough river. Not very long but impressive none-the-less.

Fallingwater- the house desinged by Frank Lloyd Wright that sits over top of a stream. This place is my dream house.

Emmlenton, Pa- a town on the Allegheny River an hour or two north of Pittsburgh. About five or six miles outside of town the scenery, and the fishing, are awesome. Your in a small valley completly cut off from everything man-made. I have never had a better day fishing.

edit: skidawg, ya the yough is great too, cucumber falls area is my favorite. Fond memorys of that place abound.

[truth]

Originally posted by bad_roo

My favourite. White Sands, New Mexico - very special place for me.

Those pics are surreal.

[Ripzalot]

Originally posted by bad_roo
My favourite. White Sands, New Mexico - very special place for me.

Very cool place. You should check out Coral Pink Sands in Utah. Very similar except, unhh, it's pink.

My picks:

-Zion National Park
-Moab (Arches & Canyonlands National Parks)
-Central Cali coast
-Outer Banks, North Carolina
-Florida Keys

I still have a lot to see stateside. I could do a pretty nice euro picklist tho!