481 Search Results for "parks"

• World's largest spring-fed

  • From: Linda Brannen
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    Balmorhea State Park, Texas, spring fed swimming pool.

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• Mule Ear Peaks

  • From: Linda Brannen
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    Muel Ear Peaks are in Big Bend Texas

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• Moab, UT - The Gooseneck - Dea

  • From: beezhan
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    Moab, Utah is a paradise! I think it has something for just about anyone. Great outdoor activities abound! You can raft down the mighty Colorado and Green Rivers, hike in the red rock canyons or in the beautiful Manti La Sal Forest, repel, go fishing, mountain bike on world class trails, or just take a simple walk in some of the most unique and breath taking areas on earth.

    You can't beat the weather. If you love the heat - the summers in Moab bring it. Summer temps can top 110 F. However, escape from the heat is only a short drive up the La Sal Mountain Loop Road, where temperatures can be up to 30 degrees cooler. 

    Moab and the surrounding area is historically and geographically rich with ancient Pueblo/Anasazi dwellings and cliff art to modern Native American cultural influences. The unique geography has drawn movie producers, including Stephen Spielberg and are a draw for amture and professional photographers alike. You can'f find many places that are blessed with as many state and national parks, forests, and heritage sites! Cuisine and shopping opportunities are enriched by the many ethnic and cultural influences in the area. Moab even had a hand in the Cold War (as a uranium mining center - no worries, no enriched uranium and the mills have been closed for many years).

     

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• Moab, UT - Juniper - Dead Hors

  • From: beezhan
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    Moab, Utah is a paradise! I think it has something for just about anyone. Great outdoor activities abound! You can raft down the mighty Colorado and Green Rivers, hike in the red rock canyons or in the beautiful Manti La Sal Forest, repel, go fishing, mountain bike on world class trails, or just take a simple walk in some of the most unique and breath taking areas on earth.

    You can't beat the weather. If you love the heat - the summers in Moab bring it. Summer temps can top 110 F. However, escape from the heat is only a short drive up the La Sal Mountain Loop Road, where temperatures can be up to 30 degrees cooler. 

    Moab and the surrounding area is historically and geographically rich with ancient Pueblo/Anasazi dwellings and cliff art to modern Native American cultural influences. The unique geography has drawn movie producers, including Stephen Spielberg and are a draw for amture and professional photographers alike. You can'f find many places that are blessed with as many state and national parks, forests, and heritage sites! Cuisine and shopping opportunities are enriched by the many ethnic and cultural influences in the area. Moab even had a hand in the Cold War (as a uranium mining center - no worries, no enriched uranium and the mills have been closed for many years).

     

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• Moab, UT - Delicate Arch - Arc

  • From: beezhan
  • Description:

    Moab, Utah is a paradise! I think it has something for just about anyone. Great outdoor activities abound! You can raft down the mighty Colorado and Green Rivers, hike in the red rock canyons or in the beautiful Manti La Sal Forest, repel, go fishing, mountain bike on world class trails, or just take a simple walk in some of the most unique and breath taking areas on earth.

    You can't beat the weather. If you love the heat - the summers in Moab bring it. Summer temps can top 110 F. However, escape from the heat is only a short drive up the La Sal Mountain Loop Road, where temperatures can be up to 30 degrees cooler. 

    Moab and the surrounding area is historically and geographically rich with ancient Pueblo/Anasazi dwellings and cliff art to modern Native American cultural influences. The unique geography has drawn movie producers, including Stephen Spielberg and are a draw for amture and professional photographers alike. You can'f find many places that are blessed with as many state and national parks, forests, and heritage sites! Cuisine and shopping opportunities are enriched by the many ethnic and cultural influences in the area. Moab even had a hand in the Cold War (as a uranium mining center - no worries, no enriched uranium and the mills have been closed for many years).

     

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• Moab, UT - Warner Lake - La Sa

  • From: beezhan
  • Description:

    Moab, Utah is a paradise! I think it has something for just about anyone. Great outdoor activities abound! You can raft down the mighty Colorado and Green Rivers, hike in the red rock canyons or in the beautiful Manti La Sal Forest, repel, go fishing, mountain bike on world class trails, or just take a simple walk in some of the most unique and breath taking areas on earth.

    You can't beat the weather. If you love the heat - the summers in Moab bring it. Summer temps can top 110 F. However, escape from the heat is only a short drive up the La Sal Mountain Loop Road, where temperatures can be up to 30 degrees cooler. 

    Moab and the surrounding area is historically and geographically rich with ancient Pueblo/Anasazi dwellings and cliff art to modern Native American cultural influences. The unique geography has drawn movie producers, including Stephen Spielberg and are a draw for amture and professional photographers alike. You can'f find many places that are blessed with as many state and national parks, forests, and heritage sites! Cuisine and shopping opportunities are enriched by the many ethnic and cultural influences in the area. Moab even had a hand in the Cold War (as a uranium mining center - no worries, no enriched uranium and the mills have been closed for many years).

     

  • 1 week ago
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• Moab, UT - Rainbow Over Anticl

  • From: beezhan
  • Description:

    Moab, Utah is a paradise! I think it has something for just about anyone. Great outdoor activities abound! You can raft down the mighty Colorado and Green Rivers, hike in the red rock canyons or in the beautiful Manti La Sal Forest, repel, go fishing, mountain bike on world class trails, or just take a simple walk in some of the most unique and breath taking areas on earth.

    You can't beat the weather. If you love the heat - the summers in Moab bring it. Summer temps can top 110 F. However, escape from the heat is only a short drive up the La Sal Mountain Loop Road, where temperatures can be up to 30 degrees cooler. 

    Moab and the surrounding area is historically and geographically rich with ancient Pueblo/Anasazi dwellings and cliff art to modern Native American cultural influences. The unique geography has drawn movie producers, including Stephen Spielberg and are a draw for amture and professional photographers alike. You can'f find many places that are blessed with as many state and national parks, forests, and heritage sites! Cuisine and shopping opportunities are enriched by the many ethnic and cultural influences in the area. Moab even had a hand in the Cold War (as a uranium mining center - no worries, no enriched uranium and the mills have been closed for many years).

     

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• Death Valley Artist Drive

  • From: horbinsr
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    I had never been to Death Valley before and was only familiar with the name from the 1950's TV show "Death Valley Days" (yes, I did watch it). I was impressed with the beauty of the emptiness and desolation, the distant blue mountains with the expanses of flat sand, dotted with lacey, brownish 'plant life'. The salt flats of Badwater Basin (lowest place in the US at 282ft below sea level) were intriguiging and a gret place to do ultra close-ups of salt formations, but what made me fall in love withn the area was absolutly marvelous, drop-dead gorgeous array of colors of the minerals. These images represent just some of what turned me into giggling school girl at every turn (please don't take offense).

    Found mainly along hwy 190, between Badwater Basin and Stovepipe Wells, the sand (or gravel) consists of so many colors you have to name them descriptively. Chocolate, carmel, turquoise, mustard, vanilla... on and on. Some of the absolute best displays are found along Artist Drive. A curvy, dippy ride thru the colors of creation.

    Driving back from Badwater I spotted some flashes of solid color along the side of the road. Scretching to a stop I discovered it was a small bolder containing pockets of mineral deposits before they are turned into graceful flows of luscious flavors. I shouldn't admit this, but if that bolder was any lighter, it would have a special place in my home right now. Oh! To posses a piece of God's pallet.

  • 1 week ago
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• Death Valley Pallet Origins

  • From: horbinsr
  • Description:

    I had never been to Death Valley before and was only familiar with the name from the 1950's TV show "Death Valley Days" (yes, I did watch it). I was impressed with the beauty of the emptiness and desolation, the distant blue mountains with the expanses of flat sand, dotted with lacey, brownish 'plant life'. The salt flats of Badwater Basin (lowest place in the US at 282ft below sea level) were intriguiging and a great place to do ultra close-ups of salt formations, but what made me fall in love with the area was the absolutely marvelous, drop-dead gorgeous array of colors of the minerals. These images represent just some of what turned me into giggling school girl at every turn (please don't take offense).

    Found mainly along hwy 190, between Badwater Basin and Stovepipe Wells, the sand (or gravel) consists of so many colors you have to name them descriptively; chocolate, carmel, turquoise, mustard, vanilla... on and on. Some of the best displays are found along Artist Drive, a curvy, dippy ride thru the colors of creation.

     

  • 1 week ago
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• The origins of color

  • From: horbinsr
  • Description:

    I had never been to Death Valley before and was only familiar with the name from the 1950's TV show "Death Valley Days" (yes, I did watch it). I was impressed with the beauty of the emptiness and desolation, the distant blue mountains with the expanses of flat sand, dotted with lacey, brownish 'plant life'. The salt flats of Badwater Basin (lowest place in the US at 282ft below sea level) were intriguiging and a great place to do ultra close-ups of salt formations, but what made me fall in love withn the area was absolutely marvelous, drop-dead gorgeous array of colors of the minerals. These images represent just some of what turned me into giggling school girl at every turn (please don't take offense).

    Driving back from Badwater I spotted some flashes of solid color along the side of the road. Screeching to a stop I discovered it was a small bolder (the size of 2 basketballs) containing pockets of mineral deposits before they are turned into graceful flows of luscious flavors. I shouldn't admit this, but if that bolder was any lighter, it would have a special place in my home right now. Oh! To posses a piece of God's pallet.

  • 1 week ago
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• A true 'kodak moment'

  • From: horbinsr
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    While visiting Yellowstone, we stopped (of course) at the Grand Prismatic spring at Midway Geyser Basin.  The sillouettes tell the story. The reflected sky, the cyanobacteria and the mineral deposits produce the super colorful reflections on the mineral plates (to be honest, some polarizing filters helped), while the backlit steam provides a dramatic background. Everybody, except the sitter, is using a camera, capturing the magic of the moment.

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• Candy colors

  • From: horbinsr
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    I used to think of the 'desert' as synonomous with 'devoid'. Nothing could be further from the truth in the Painted Desert. As a midwesterner, I'm used to 'reality' as having grass, trees and mooing critters, and the drive to the west coast as a necessary evil, something to get through - fast. This last trip, though, we weren't going to the coast, we weren't 'going' anywhere. We were just driving 'that direction'. Boy, what a difference. It's sort of like stopping to smell the roses"and once you do, you begin to see that the 'west' is full of color and form and texture and awe and wonderment. Green is nice (fall is prettier) but neither can compare with the size and scope of the magnificence of our nations 'deserts'. I think these colors of  prove my point. Miles and miles of fanciful, colored ribbons found in the Painted Desert are rivaled only by the rainbow pallets of the Badlands of South Dakota and Death Valley in California.

  • 2 weeks ago
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• Moonscapes

  • From: horbinsr
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    Moab Utah is the guardian to some of the coolest sandstone structures around. Arches NP has not only the 'hole-in-the-middle' arch that we think of, but some really other-worldly shapes. A late afternoon drive thru the park just happened to coincide with the moon rising behind these shapely towers. Being thrilled with having both the sun and moon up at the same time, I grabbed for the camera.

  • 2 weeks ago
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• Perspectives

  • From: horbinsr
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    As you leave Yellowstone NP, via the south entrance, you literally stumble into an entire different landscape from the one you just experienced. You still see the grasses and the lakes and the trees, but it's rather hard to escape the purplish 'matterhorn' style peaks thrusting themselves toward the sky. The craggy and snow covered Grand Teton peaks towering behind an early Mormon homestead puts the relationship of man's attempt to dominate versus the strength of nature in prespective.

    Can you imagine living here with antelope and buffalo roam, not to mention the largest Elk herd in the US during the 'rutting' season. Unfortunately we were there one week too early and couldn't stay for it. Next time!

  • 2 weeks ago
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• From Blue to Gold

  • From: horbinsr
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    Yellowstone is a marvelously special place and I hope every person has a chance to experience it's beauty.

    Old faithful might be the park's icon, but I think this view taken at West Thumb Geyser Basin is just one of those marvels that tops it.

    
    

     

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• Colorado River View

  • From: horbinsr
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    We had been to the Canyon many times before and thought we had seen it all, but even now every turnoff, every vista holds a new perspective. Sometimes all it takes is just one extra step left or right, standing or sitting, or just the time and weather, to reveal something new, like this shot of the mighty Colorado river seen from the south rim of the Grand Canyon. I was even fortunate enugh to have captured a few circling birds in the scene.

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• Autumn in Central Park

  • From: ayc214
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• Autumn in Central Park

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• Paris - Man Reading in Park

  • From: newyorkgirl
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• Lost in the woods

  • From: waltmustang
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    Took on a trip to Petit Jean state park - Morrilton, Arkansas

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