Type: Photos
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Pikes Peak from the Siamese Twins Trail
Read This Post: Pikes Peak from the Siamese Twins TrailOne of the main reasons Pikes Peak is called “America’s Mountain” is because you can see it for miles and miles as you travel west across the plains on the way to the Rocky Mountains. Towering over the Garden of the Gods to its northeast, we have the perfect view spot of the mountain and…
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Car Driving Down Pikes Peak
Read This Post: Car Driving Down Pikes PeakBesides hiking and taking the cog railway, visitors can take a two lane road up to the top of Pikes Peak. The winding and twisting 19-mile toll road gives drivers and passengers a spectacular view of the Rocky Mountains, with many different pull out points to stop and take in the view. The road is…
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Mount Waas From Moab
Read This Post: Mount Waas From MoabThe La Sal Mountains run along the western side of the Rocky Mountains with its highest elevation coming at Mount Peale at 12,721 feet. The range formed between 25 and 28 million years ago and is made up of igneous or magma rocks and is one of the younger mountain ranges around the Colorado Plateau….
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Mount Waas
Read This Post: Mount WaasMount Waas is a part of the La Sal Mountains in southeast Utah. At an elevation of 12,331 feef, its peak dominates the landscape east of Moab and the area around Arches National Park.
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Meteor Crater Natural Monument
Read This Post: Meteor Crater Natural MonumentMeteor Crater near Winslow, Arizona, was created over 50,000 years ago when a meteorite made of nickel and iron made it through the earth’s atmosphere and impacted the ground, which consisted of grasslands and woodlands at the time. The crater, also known as Barringer Crater, is 0.737 miles across and 580 feet deep and rises…
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Grand Canyon Village
Read This Post: Grand Canyon VillageThe Grand Canyon Village, located on the south rim of the Canyon, makes the canyon feel a little less remote. Here visitors can grab a bite to eat, shop for souvenirs, take a break from the heat and even view art galleries. The Bright Angel Trail that starts nearby lures people into a false sense…
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Grand Canyon Valleys
Read This Post: Grand Canyon ValleysSomething that’s hard to capture in any photo is the shear size of the Grand Canyon. At times it’s over 11 miles wide, and it’s something that you just have to see for yourself. Here we’re looking across the amazing canyon that formed roughly 5 to 6 million years ago.
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Grand Canyon Rock Formations
Read This Post: Grand Canyon Rock FormationsThe distant view of the sides of the Grand Canyon gives us a spectacular view of the many different layers of soil and rock that make up this grand landscape. The power of water is truly an amazing thing as we try to imagine how the Colorado River below was able to carve out this…
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Fairy Doors in Golden, Colorado
Read This Post: Fairy Doors in Golden, ColoradoLocated at the bast of the Rocky Mountains, Golden, Colorado, is a lovely town with a great atmosphere. While people play volleyball and relax on the grass in the part, someone has made art out of this notch in a tree. And for a second we wonder if there really is some magic behind those…
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Orpheum Theater in Flagstaff
Read This Post: Orpheum Theater in FlagstaffBuilt in 1911 as the Majestic Opera House, the Orpheum Theater in downtown Flagstaff, Arizona, housed opera performances and showed movies for most of its life. It closed in 1999, but opened three years later as a concert venue. Today it hosts a variety of concert, fundraisers and other shows in the historic building.
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Railroad Crossing in Flagstaff
Read This Post: Railroad Crossing in FlagstaffLocated on BNSF’s southern transcontinental route between Chicago and Los Angeles, Flagstaff, Arizona, sees over 50 trains a day. At times, the interval between trains can be as low as a few minutes. That means railroad crossings like this one are active a large portion of the day while pedestrians and cars wait for trains…
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Downtown Flagstaff at Night
Read This Post: Downtown Flagstaff at NightDowntown Flagstaff is a lovely area located on old Route 66. While through traffic has shifted to Interstate 40 to the south, the downtown area is a great place to walk around, dine, shop and enjoy music. And when the sun goes down, it only gets better as the neon lights light up the downtown…
